In this episode of [Adrian’s Digital Basement], we dive into the world of retro computing with a focus on diagnosing and repairing an old full-height 5.25-inch floppy drive from an IBM 5150 system.

I have 3 bootable floppies I want to transfer to a file. All three are the same Spinrite program, but I don't have time to play with them at the moment. I have a portable floppy drive I borrowed, and ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

I own a pretty ancient Apple Mac 512e (with 68k cpu) which dates from 1985 or thereabouts, maybe older. It still works, but a lot of our games discs got corrupted, so I started downloading some off ...

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...