Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

A portrait of Indianapolis humor icon David Letterman made of floppy disks will be displayed in downtown InterContinental ...

Since then, KolibriOS has become widely multi-platform while maintaining a 32-bit focus and becoming lightweight enough to ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

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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 ...

A multimillion-dollar state grant will eventually bring the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s floppy-disk-based subway train-control system into the 21st century. The SFMTA will ...

The first Macs didn't have SSD or hard drives, but used small 3.5-inch floppy disks - small magnetic discs ... Unless the volume has a huge size, you won't get any progress window during ...

(TNS) — San Francisco transportation officials moved a step closer this past week to modernizing the train control system that runs the Muni Metro system, eventually ridding it of a system that ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.