With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010 ... rely on a dwindling stack of new old stock, or the used market. With the purported unreliability of this ...
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Floppy Disks: A Brief History
Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...
We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...
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When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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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You’d be forgiven for thinking that floppy disks had long gone the way of the dodo, but actually their use is more common than you might imagine - but perhaps not for much longer. Back in ...
For those younger than 40, a floppy disk was the transportable storage medium that was in vogue from the 1970s till the late 90s. If that still isn't ringing any bells, an image of it is used as ...
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 System ...
Funding also enabled capabilities such as consumer access to official vaccination records that can be used for camp enrollment or employment requirements and the ability to schedule vaccination ...
Floppy disks were developed in the late ... later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats. Around 1,900 government ...
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 ...