If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30 ... it was more akin to jamming a laserdisc or record into your computer for writing ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.

Floppy disks were the dominant form of data storage ... “When a train enters the subway, its onboard computer connects to the train control system to run the train in automatic mode, where ...

The SFMTA will receive $130 million to partially fund the software modernization as part of $1.3 billion the California State ...

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

The system uses three floppy disks for loading DOS software that controls ... “When a train enters the subway, its onboard computer connects to the train control system to run the train in ...