Buying Guide: How to Transfer Files Trapped on Old Floppy Disks In August 1984, my parents bought an Apple IIe for about $2,500, making them one of the first on the block to own a personal computer.

If you have a floppy drive in your computer, you can simply copy the image to a blank as intended. However, if computers in your business are like most modern ones, they probably have no floppy drive.

See how to transfer your files from an old hard drive to a new computer running Windows 10 via OneDrive. WiFi, LAN, Software, etc.

In this video, spotted by Kotaku, LGR takes an old floppy disk, the same kind you used in your computer class at school, and uses it to play a classic video game on a smartphone.

Floppy disks have been widely used as magnetic disks for personal computers since around 1980, and were used as recording media until optical disk drives such as CDs and DVDs became the standard ...

Not so long ago, 3.5-inch floppy drives were something that every desktop computer had. U.K.-based Solid State Disk has a way to make them useful again.