San Francisco OKs $212M plan to finally replace aging train system run by floppy disks
The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...
Super-lightweight operating system boots off a 1.44MB floppy disk — KolibriOS lets you do simple tasks and even play games on your legacy PC
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This Raspberry Pi automatically archives a stack of Amiga floppy disks
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.
San Francisco Will Pay $212 Million for Its Train System to Ditch Floppy Disks
The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.
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San Francisco's Train System Is Still Run on Floppy Disks. It May Finally Get an Upgrade.
If you're old enough to know what a floppy disk is, you're old enough to know how bonkers this is: San Francisco's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) runs on data that is stored on floppy ...
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How to use the Finder Erase Disk command in macOS Sequoia
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 ...
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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
After starting initial planning in 2018, the SFMTA originally expected to move to a floppy-disk-free train control system by 2028. But with COVID-19 preventing work for 18 months, the estimated ...