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Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

...some that may be familiar to the more mature viewer.8-inch floppy disk drive The charmingly mechanical insides of an 8-inch floppy disk... Read more

2 May, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Acorns land at Bletchley Park

Acorns land at Bletchley Park

...rack-mounted Eurocard systems. They added various combinations of video, memory and floppy disk interfaces to the standard CPU, which was still a 1MHz 6502... Read more

25 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Floppy Zip Disk Rescue 1.1.2

Floppy Zip Disk Rescue 1.1.2

...Rescue is an easy-to-use tool to rescue corrupt file from Floppy disk and ZIP disk or other peripheral devices, it fast scans disk... Read more

26 April, 2012
Screenshots: LibreOffice 3.5

Screenshots: LibreOffice 3.5

...same family. But some of the icon choices may be confusing. The floppy disk icon is certainly an anachronism in this day and age, although... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Mary Branscombe
My BootDisk 3.2

My BootDisk 3.2

...the solution of booting up Windows NT/2000/XP with only one floppy disk. This enables users to troubleshoot multiple operating system boot crash and... Read more

16 February, 2012
R-Drive Image 4.7 build 4737

R-Drive Image 4.7 build 4737

...a disk image when R-Drive Image is launched from a bootable floppy disk created by the trial version Read more

3 February, 2012

Quotes of the year: From Steve Jobs' impact to why architects are the Britneys of IT

...a 50/50 chance of moving data between Atari computers using a floppy disk because the alignment between floppy disk drives was never guaranteed" - Stephen... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

From father of the internet Vint Cerf to visionary sci-fi author William Gibson, the hardware that got IT's hall of fame started... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath
WinAudit 2.29

WinAudit 2.29

...that needs no installation or configuration. It can be run from a floppy disk or USB stick. The program reports on virtually every aspect of... Read more

12 July, 2011

The monarchy and technology through the ages

...love, politics intervened and he had to go on to become a floppy disk magnate and office supplies supremo. When she died, the succession went... Read more

29 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
AppleXsoft Photo Recovery 3.0

AppleXsoft Photo Recovery 3.0

...MMC, Pen drives, USB flash drives, CompactFlash I and II, Micro Drives, floppy disk, Zip disk, CD, DVD disk and most other storage media. AppleXsoft... Read more

26 April, 2011
Sondle File Recovery Assist 3.0.0.38

Sondle File Recovery Assist 3.0.0.38

...delete and formatted files back. It recovers deleted files on hard drivers, floppy disk, pen driver and USB storage media. It support to recover deleted... Read more

28 March, 2011
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Professional 4.2

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Professional 4.2

...supports multiple media so that you can recover data from hard drive, floppy disk, CD, DVD and USB storage media. Live Update to receive latest... Read more

9 March, 2011
A quarter century of Windows

A quarter century of Windows

...now seem impossibly quaint: MS-DOS version 2.0; two double-sided floppy disk drives or a hard disk; 256KB of memory or greater; a... Read more

20 November, 2010 by Charles McLellan
Smart Partition Recovery 2.5

Smart Partition Recovery 2.5

...case of data loss. The saved files can be stored on a floppy disk, flash-drive or CD. In a manual mode, you can re... Read more

6 August, 2010

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