I worked on an essay in a class at school today, and saved my stuff onto a floppy to take home.<P>When I attempted to open the file (an MS word .doc) at home, Word refused to do so. I attempted to ...

Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the ...

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

You could probably rip the sliding door off of and diskcopy the floppy to one with a working door. No sense goofing around with the spring.

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of Congress ...