Having picked out a case, mainboard, CPU, RAM, and all other necessary components for my new rig, I've got one last choice to make: a black floppy drive. I use floppy disks quite often to interface ...

Okay, so I reported for work yesterday and found a sealed IBM Thinkpad box, an IBM USB floppy drive and a Targus IBM laptop bag on my desk. Inside was a Thinkpad R50. Looking up the model code, it ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.