In an era of cloud storage, AI copilots, and real-time GPS updates on your phone, it sounds absurd that some commercial airplanes still rely on floppy disks—yes, those 3.5-inch plastic squares ...

They sell 50-packs of recycled 3.5-inch floppy disks for $20 each or 10-packs of brand-new 3.5-inch floppy disks for $13 each. Alternatively, you can get a 10-pack of new disks on Amazon for $19.

Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...

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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 ...

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations.

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 ...

According to Tom’s Hardware, the Navy is only now nearing replacement solutions for the floppy disks that help manage its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates (warships) that monitor submarine activity.

The frigates were built in the mid 1990s, so its reasonable that they were fitted with floppy disk readers. Unfortunately three decades have passed and the German Brandenburg-Klasse F123 still ...

The German Navy is set to modernize its aging floppy disk technology aboard its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. It is a significant step towards bringing the Navy's technology up to current ...

Japan began moving away from the 1900s storage devices, magnetic disks encased in plastic, just two years ago, when Taro Kono, the country’s digital minister, declared a “war on floppy disks”.