The floppy disks also have a distinct security advantage over fiber optics or other networked systems, which prove vulnerable an may even be infiltrated by passengers, who in their defense have a ...

The floppy disks are used to load navigational databases which need to be updated regularly, every 28 days. Engineers responsible for loading updates must perform the process manually on the ground.

The only thing that ages worse than integral computer technology is milk. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a $212 million contract earlier this month to develop a ...

If you're old enough to know what a floppy disk is, you're old enough to know how bonkers this is: San Francisco's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) runs on data that is stored on floppy disks.

Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.

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Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he tests the drive’s components and explores whether the fault lies with the read/write head or electronic systems.

San Francisco transit officials approved a $212 million overhaul of its train control system which until now has run on data stored by floppy disks.

As the machines that read floppy disks have become obsolete, it’s become difficult for most people to access these artifacts. Instead, they search for “floppy disk” on the Internet.

It’s easy to see why floppy disk requirements became emblematic of this struggle: for a start, it’s a challenge just laying your hand on one in 2024.

Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage A “Floppy RAID” might sound like the title of a frustrating niche adult movie, but it isn’t.

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival ...