The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

Unlike the later 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disks, the 8-inch disks had a flexible and truly "floppy" feel. They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective ...

This past year, we've also covered efforts in Germany and Japan to leave floppy disks behind ... that the SFMTA control system uses bulkier 5.25-inch floppy drives, not standard 3.5-inch floppies ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... compressed audio could be squeezed onto a standard 3.5 inch floppy, and then that the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night album ...

For those who owned personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s, the 5-and-a-quarter inch floppy disk was once among the most popular format for memory storage and data exchange. But the advent of ...

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 ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer being ...

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.

One of the most respected and trusted awards for the advertising and design industries are back for 2025. Run, don’t walk to get your entries in before the Early Bird Deadline on 25 October ...

The original Mac let you erase disks right on the Desktop, with the feature returning thanks to macOS Sequoia. Here's how to use it. When the original Mac was released in 1984, its desktop allowed ...