For some older computers that often didn’t have hard disk drives at all, like the Commodore 64, it’s one of the few ways to load programs into computer memory. And, rather than maintaining an ...

Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, or the 1541 disk drive if you wanted to work faster.

The Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh, and IBM PC all shipped with floppy drives. Despite my love of the old and crusty storage media of yesteryear, the floppy disk wasn’t long for this earth.

For those a little too young to remember the Commodore Amiga range ... As disks are archived, the disk image files are stored onto a USB drive. The Raspberry Pi is also connected to a camera ...