Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless, many older applications or drivers may ...

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles ...

The New York Public Library’s digital curator of performing arts Doug Reside has posted a useful guide to recovering old data from floppy discs. The New York Public Library’s digital curator of ...

Reader Kristie wrote in with this puzzler: “I just found a shoebox full of 3.5-inch disks. I think they were from my old digital camera, but I have no way of finding out because I no longer have a ...

Q: I’m a doctor who was a medical missionary in Madagascar for 40 years, and the time has come for me to write my memoirs. But to do that I need access to my old emails and correspondence that were ...

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...