This is the LAST thing i ever expected to have problems with on a new system. I'm putting together a cheap 700mhz system (Win2k) for a friend of mine to be used for net surfing, email, word processing ...

I have an old dual pentium pro machine, when i put it together i couldn't get it to boot from a floppy no matter what i did in the bios or what floppy disk i used. i tried 3 different floppy drives ...

When we think of retrocomputing, it’s very often the computers themselves that get all the glory. There’s nothing wrong with this of course- the computers of the late 70’s and 80’s were incredible ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these ...