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BTK trusts police when they say his floppy disc is safe, then investigators find his name hidden inside it

Charlie Otero was just 15 years old when he came home to discover that BTK had murdered his parents and two younger siblings. The killer remained unidentified for decades, until his hunger for ...
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Silent Hill: Townfall Guide | Floppy Disk Puzzle

The Disk Puzzle in Silent Hill: Townfall takes place at 5 South Brae during Part 4: Clara Woods. Repair a corrupted floppy disk, load three disks into the computer, and print a document containing the ...
Indiatimes

In 1985, Andy Warhol created digital art on an Amiga computer; nearly 30 years later, researchers recovered 28 never-before-seen images from his floppy disks

In 1985, Andy Warhol experimented with digital art on an Amiga computer as part of a commission from Commodore International. Nearly 30 years later, researchers recovered 28 previously unseen digital ...
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Gen Zers were handed a floppy disk. Their bafflement over how to use it is wild to see.

As technology continues to advance at an exponential rate, it can be tough to keep up with new inventions. On the flip side, we sometimes watch younger generations wrestle with understanding ...
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Fabian Nicieza's Gambit Novel Only Exists On A Dead Floppy Disc

Chris Claremont added, "If you really want a cathartic end of something, you have the paper, you have fire, and you burn it." Fabian Nicieza repeated, "I kept the plastic disc. It says Gambit novel on ...
Mental Floss

7 Things Every Early 2000s Computer Room Had

Does anyone remember having to painstakingly tweak games and software to run perfectly on a particular monitor? These days, it's all pretty standardized, but the 2000s were a time of change. The old ...
history-computer

The Short-Lived Floppy Disk Competitors That Failed to Make a Splash

For over 20 years, the basic 3.5-inch floppy disk was the center of all personal computing. If you needed to save data, this small plastic disk that every computer user was familiar with could be ...
The Escapist

Floppy game development contest challenges creators to build a complete game under 1.44MB

If you are here, there is a fair chance you know what floppy disk is, or was. You may even know how small they were in terms of storage size. If you are here and know none of these tales of yore, then ...
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Reading a 5.25 Inch Floppy Disk on Modern Hardware

A GreaseWeazle adapter and specialized software make it possible to recover files from decades-old 5.25-inch floppy disks. After recently rediscovering numerous floppy disks in my attic, I decided to ...
IEEE

What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

Create an account to access more content and features on IEEE Spectrum, including the ability to save articles to read later, download Spectrum Collections, and participate in conversations with ...
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Watch an iPod and a Floppy Disk Dance in the Avalanches’ New Video

The Avalanches have returned with their first new single in six years. “Together” features Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss, an 18-year-old artist and producer based in Jackson, Missouri. An ...