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 ...

Although mechanically sound, the drive had trouble reading disks, and Adrian quickly set out to fix the issue. Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he ...

Hitachi Rail contract inked by SF transport board will kill the throwback San Francisco's Muni Metro could be finally getting ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

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

This doesn’t work for imaging disks from other older platforms, but he provides pointers to more capable floppy controllers for that. If these drives interest you, there’s more to be gleaned ...

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

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 ...

in 1983 became the first company to build hard drives using the 3.5-inch form factor which had previously been used by Tandon and Shugart Associates for building floppy disk drives. 1981 ...

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 ...

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 ...