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 ...

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.

Apple dropped the floppy drive in 1998 with the release of the iMac, and five years later, Dell did the same with its Dell Dimension range. Sony was the last company to manufacture the disks, halting ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

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

Originally forked from the MenuetOS project way back in 2004, KolibriOS has since charted its own path while sticking to its 32-bit x86 roots – unlike ...

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"In House" is the new EP from Wichita musician Bryce Abood. The recording was inspired by a few long obsolete keyboards that ...

The system uses three floppy disks for loading DOS software that controls the ... to the train control system to run the train in automatic mode, where the trains drive themselves while the operators ...

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) was the first agency in the US to adopt the floppy-based automatic ... where the trains drive themselves while the operators supervise.