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

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... but in 2020 it’s simply a USB floppy drive, a Raspberry Pi, and a battery pack. He’s given us the full instructions ...

which would make reading these disks as easy as writing a few lines of code. But wait, surely this is a solved problem? Why not just pick up a cheap USB floppy drive from the A to Z online ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

As computer networking and new storage formats like USB flash drives and memory cards emerged, the floppy disk's reign waned in the mid-to-late 1990s. The end of the floppy disk era came with the ...

but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli ...

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 deal is ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5.25 ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

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.

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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 ...