Do you remember slapping labels on floppy or ZIP disks so you could remember what was on them? Remember sticking them in caddies to organize them? I thought for sure that when I graduated to a ...
The Harold B. Lee Library is phasing out zip and floppy disk drives on most of its open-access computers, and library staff members are suggesting that patrons use other forms of media to save their ...
It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.
Like a lot of people who’ve worked in tech for a long time, I’ve accumulated a lot of products over the years. I’m not very good at throwing things away - because you never know when you’ll need them!
When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...