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The funding, awarded by the California Transportation Commission, will enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...
Jokes about the antiquated technology that runs Muni's subway have long made the rounds among riders. But the floppy disk software has passed its expiration date.
Although floppy disks are still used by different industries, including some music labels with unique marketing campaigns, the days of this antiquated technology are numbered. Some industries are ...
The FAA will no longer use Windows 95 for air traffic control. Floppy disks, another tech relic, will also be canned—something that should have happened a long time ago, one would think.
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 ...
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 ...
Buying a 3.5-inch floppy drive today Windows 11 computers don’t come with floppy drives, so if you want to use floppy disks on a modern PC, you’ll need to buy a floppy drive.
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 ...
When Taylor Smith talks about the future of her floppy disk paintings, she points to the boxes stored at her northeast-side studio. Together, they hold more than 50,000 of the square-shaped ...
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 current ATCS floppy disk system has been in use since 1998 and utilizes a mix of automatic mode functioning when the trains are running in the subway and manual operations when they are moving ...