It's in one of the first menus of the BIOS setup, usually like <B>Floppy Drive A: 1.44 MB 3.5"</B>. Basically make sure you don't have it set for B: instead of A:, and in another menu there should be ...

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

I spend a lot of time on planes (maybe too much – see last post). On a flight a couple of years ago I sat next to a guy and our conversation quickly turned to IT. Apparently he’d been hired as a ...

WTF?! Joining the list of organizations still using archaic technology is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which has a train control system still reliant on floppy disks.

Japan’s Digital Minister Taro Kono announced late last month that he had successfully scrapped 1,034 government regulations that required the use of floppy disks. According to Reuters, Kono described ...

The Japanese government has followed through on its promises of removing 1.44MB floppy disks from operating in government computer systems. In a new report from Reuters, we're learning that Digital ...