It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And ...

If you're like most people, you probably haven't thought about the humble floppy disk in decades. But they're not totally ...

If you are planning a flight to the USA in the near future, you should know this: Without Windows 95 and floppy discs, many planes do not reach their destination. The US air traffic control ...

Early Macs used a proprietary floppy disk format, and once a Mac 3.5-inch disk was create,d it couldn't be read on the IBM PC standard. This made file transfers between the two types of computers ...

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.

The Alchemist has been known to use floppy disks when making beats. Now, he has a new song out called “Floppy Disks,” an ode of sorts to the format. “Dustin’ off floppy disks I’m keeping ...

You absolutely could not expect a floppy disk from one type of computer to work in another. That is, unless you had a magical three-format disk, as [RobSmithDev] explains. The tri-format disk was ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation ...

Among the first to pull the plug on floppy disks was Apple, with the release of the iMac in 1998. Sony stopped selling floppy disks in 2011. Perhaps the man now standing in the way of the storage ...

Floppy disks may have been at the forefront of digital storage in the 1980s, but the format has been replaced multiple times over by 2024. Comment(s) Recommended ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks.. The Muni Metro’s Automatic Train Control ...