In 1983, the software company Microsoft, together with ASCII from Japan, decided to create a standard for home computers.

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While most television manufacturers will happily boast about the picture quality of their latest 4K TVs, they’re generally less effusive when the subject of sound quality comes up. There’s a ...

This is useful if you want to disable the internal floppy disk drive of your computer. If you use one of the "exclusive" variants of the ROM, all other MSX-DOS kernels in the system will be disabled ...

The latter may sound paradoxical ... wants to boot a ROM with BASIC – from floppy disk, the Z80 was always active after switching on. If the computer could not find a CP/M diskette, the C64 ...

The 39th Golden Disc Awards kicked off last night! On January 4, the Golden Disc Awards held the first night of its ceremony at Fukuoka’s PayPay Dome in Japan. Although the awards were ...

The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.

I’ve been writing about technology since the early 1990s and have used a vast array of tech products over the decades, moving on from them when their inevitable replacements arrived. That isn’t the ...

The Alchemist has been known to use floppy disks when making beats. Now, he has a new song out called “Floppy Disks,” an ode of sorts to the format. “Dustin’ off floppy disks I’m keeping ...