The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking contractors to modernize its decades-old computer systems within four years.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is finally pulling the plug on its outdated air traffic control systems. How ...

“If you built a plane 20 or 30 or even 40 years ago, you would use a floppy disk to get information in and out of some of the avionics of that airplane,” said 73-year-old Persky. At his ...

Currently, those 25-year-old ... inch floppy disk—which can hold 1.44 MB of data—that reads "Chuck E. Cheese Evergreen Show 2023" on a printed label. As the computer comes to life, a monitor ...

"Probably half of the air fleet in the world today is more than 20 years old," he said. The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of ...