Sells refurb/rehoused floppy drives that handle more diskette formats (e.g. DD) than your average USB drive

YIKES.

A Verge series looking at gadgets for breaking cybersecurity, whether it’s an RFID card reader or an open Wi-Fi network.

Major tech brands must now give their devices "repairability" scores in France — and the initial results don’t look good.

Thunderspy affects all Thunderbolt-equipped PCs made between 2011 and 2019.

Keep your data private and the environment protected.

Privacy is hot. Well, not quite as hot as summer reading on a sizzling beach, but with the advent of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, it certainly is

I spent two years trying to get someone to tamper with my laptop, so I could then detect it. Somewhere along the way, I realized this might never happen.

A Broadcom flaw that undermined scores of Android and iOS devices hints the future of smartphone hacking lies in third-party components.

Over the past 20 years, many thousands of CD-ROM titles were published; many of these have lasting cultural significance, yet present a difficult challenge for libraries due to obsolescence of the supporting software and hardware, and the consequent decline in the technical knowledge required to support them. The current trend appears to be one of abandonment – for example, the Indiana University Libraries no longer maintain machines capable of accessing early CD-ROM titles.In previous work, we proposed an access model based upon networked ‘virtual collections’ of CD-ROMs which can enable consortia of libraries to pool the technical expertise necessary to provide continued access to such materials for a geographically sparse base of patrons, who may have limited technical knowledge.In this paper, we extend this idea to CD-ROMs designed to operate on ‘classic’ Macintosh systems with an extensive case study – the catalog of the Voyager Company publications, which was the first major innovator in interactive CD-ROMs. The work described includes emulator extensions to support obsolete CD formats and to enable networked access to the virtual collection.

June 2013

This is meant to be a quick overview and primer of the flippy disk and disk hardware situation with regards to 5.25″ floppy drives. It is for reference and referral by others for an easy unde…

A simple enclosure for the KryoFlux floppy disk controller board.

Cheap storage with a 50-year life span? Facebook spreads the gospel of Blu-ray.

In which server-farm giants share their hardware infrastructure designs.