In Japan, there have long been laws and regulations that specify using floppy disks for submitting application data in some ...

But for archivists interested in preserving the college’s queer history, it caused a small panic. How would they ever sort ...

Serveal notable industries and organizations still use floppy disks, including the U.S. FAA and San Francisco's Muni Metro ...

If you are planning a flight to the USA in the near future, you should know this: Without Windows 95 and floppy discs, many ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as reported by NPR, is looking to ditch the ancient technology of floppy disks and ...

In brief: It's 2025, and the FAA has decided it's time to stop using floppy disks and Windows 95 for air traffic control. The head of the agency, Chris Rocheleau, wants to replace the archaic ...

NPR reports that the FAA wants to finally bring the United States’ aviation control system up to 21st century standards—and that means getting rid of floppy disks. The legacy storage format is ...

US air traffic control systems are to get an upgrade, finally ending the use of 30-year-old operating system Windows 95, and dispensing with floppy disks and paper strips in the process. On Wednesday, ...

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

WASHINGTON — This week, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration laid out an ambitious goal of bringing the U.S. air traffic control system into the 21st century. "The whole idea is to replace ...