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In late 1981, Sony surprised the photographic world with the first electronic still camera – the Mavica. The Mavica (which stood for Magnetic Video Camera) was not a digital camera, but an analog one, ...

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

Scientists have found a way to store all of humanity's most important data inside a piece of glass — and it could last longer than civilisation itself. From floppy disks to USBs, keeping important ...

The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing schoolwork in a 90s computer lab, and, as it turns out, even some of today's ...

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Thimaya Subaiya is executive vice president of operations at Cisco, and he oversees security and trust, supply chain, IT, and growth operations at the networking giant. Subaiya is part of the inner ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...