A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the ...
Yahoo

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection

The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced successors, MS-DOS remains a pivotal piece of computer history. Released to ...
Good News Network

Library is Rescuing Historical Treasures Trapped on Old Floppy Disks from the ‘Digital Dark Ages’

Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin ...
Computerworld

Japanese government says ‘sayonara’ to floppy disk

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...