On your Windows PC, the drive designations start with C. Where are A and B? The answer can be found in the history of Windows ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks.

This isn't the only example in recent memory of a government finally doing away with floppy disks. This past year ... era when computers didn't have hard drives." It's also worth noting that ...

In brief: The San Francisco Muni Metro's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS), one of the few remaining major systems still using floppy disks ... where the trains drive themselves while the ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

In San Francisco, 5.25-inch floppy disks form the basis of the light rail control system. Hundreds of millions of US dollars are now being spent to change this. The operator of the light rail ...

HDDs (hard disk drives) have been around for more than 50 years. They are essentially boxes containing spinning platters with read/write arms that skim across them to detect the orientation of ...

San Francisco Muni has approved a contract that will replace the train control system for the Market Street Subway (highlighted in yellow), which currently has a system using a floppy disk drive. San ...

At this point in the tech dystopia cycle, it’s no surprise that the initial purchase price of a piece of technology is likely not the last payment you’ll make. Almost everything these days ...

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