Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the ...

The personal technology industry, now run by some of the worst human beings on earth, was started by dreamers.

Got boxes of old electronics in the attic, garage, or your parents’ basement? A lot of that “junk” is just outdated 80s tech that nobody uses anymore. But to collectors, those same gadgets can mean ...

Those beige boxes were secretly the best classrooms money could buy.

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

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 ...

Why the famous 'square hole' hack was a ticking time bomb ...

My Tsukhime Trial Edition (月姫 体験版) finally arrived, one of only 50 copies in the world. Only to discover that US Customs had ...

Presidents' Day is finally here, and while folks in the US are enjoying a hard-earned holiday, we're seeing gaming deals crop up left, right, and center. The PlayStation 5 is no exception, with both ...

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, ...

Seagate and Western Digital dominate reliability rankings across massive real-world datasets Annualized failure rate falls to 1.36% across 344,196 drives Vibration emerges as the suspected cause ...

As of now, there's is only one currently available PlayStation 5 Model that includes a disc drive. That is the PS5 Slim, which is $50 more than the Digital Edition of the same console. The original ...