A floppy disk in the mail launched the world's first ransomware attack 35 years ago
The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch ...
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An Ancient 8 Inch Floppy, With A PC
Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics.
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What was the first computer to be marketed as a "laptop"?
Priced at $4,000, the first ever "laptop" weighed 9 pounds (4 kg) and was powered by a 5 MHz Intel 8088 alongside MS-DOS. Other specifications included 64KB of static CMOS memory, a floppy disk ...
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How To Revive A Tandon Floppy Drive
Although mechanically sound, the drive had trouble reading disks, and Adrian quickly set out to fix the issue. Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he ...