The alphabet didn’t start at C for no reason.

Quick: When's the last time you thought about Windows 95? Your answer was probably "Somewhere around 1995" or "I wasn't born yet," depending. Unless, that is, you're responsible for keeping airplanes ...

I really hate this trope. Old tech isn't necessarily bad tech, and there are ways to insulate old tech from security exploits. Just because something uses a floppy disk doesn't mean it's obsolete. In ...

Floppy disks, a creation of the 1960s, will never die. Or will they? In a video that went viral this month, a Chuck E. Cheese employee is seen loading a 3.5-inch floppy into a computer. The floppy is ...

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On Wednesday, acting FAA administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging air traffic control systems, which ...

Some of us have a laptop, and some have a desktop. But one thing that is common in all Windows computer systems is that the system hard drive on which the operating system is installed is C. Why does ...

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

You are exactly correct - that is the right way to do this. Unfortunately, neither politicians nor management is interested in doing things the right way (See: Hubble Telescope); they just want to do ...