The funding, awarded by the California Transportation Commission, will enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from ...

“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. REUTERS But he is not expecting it to survive another 20 years.

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

The "floppy" emerged in around 1970 – so named because you could bend the original disks without breaking them. For about three decades, they were the main way people stored and backed up ...

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage flight. Here's why.

Some industries still use floppy disks. This is one of the only places to buy them An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still ...

“I personally think that the floppy disk should die,” says Florian Cramer, a writer and filmmaker who, in 2009, shrunk every Oscar-nominated film from that year into animated GIFs on two ...

Rube Goldberg Floppy Disk Cleaner. 5 Comments . by: Navarre Bartz. August 2, 2024. Title: Copy. Short Link: Copy. Floppies were once the standard method of information exchange, but decades of ...

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage flight. Here's why.