The NTSB made the statement in its final report on the hull failure and implosion of the Titan submersible in June 2023.

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

On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here?

Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite ...

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

Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and ...

Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...

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 ...

Since late January, TidBITS Talkers have been reminiscing about floppy disks and other storage media of yesteryear. It has been a lovely conversation, with links to articles about groups just now ...

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Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Floppies were once the standard method of information exchange, but decades of storage can render them unreadable, especially if mold sets in. [Rob Smith] wanted to clean some floppies in style and ...