The remainder of the disk space, weighing in at either 27 billion bytes or 58 billion bytes, for a formatted capacity of 24.9 and 54.1GB respectively, is where everything else lives.

Too much, 1GB of disc space is enough for all the games in “Total DOS Collection 8” up to and including 1990. Most wont even run on XT, and require 286 at minimum. If you stop at 1987 its ...

I found a 3.5" floppy in the lock box I had when I was a kid and I'm dying to know what 12 year old me thought important enough to put on a floppy and lock it away. I have a USB floppy drive. I've ...

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Removing a hard disk drive from a personal computer is quite easy. Pull down the system and remove the drive. However, it’s a bit more complex when performing a hot swap.

At least one type of floppy disk, the ancient 8-inch introduced by IBM in 1971, seems on the verge of extinction. “There aren’t any left, and we sell the ones we have for $5 [each] in boxes of ...