But wait, surely this is a solved problem? Why not just pick up a cheap USB floppy drive from the A to Z online retailer we all love to hate? Unfortunately, these gadgets are something of a mixed bag.

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular USB flash drive when inserted into the floppy drive.

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

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.

KolibriOS fits on a single floppy disk, updated as recently as a few months ago. Despite its old-school appearance, it ...

and with much greater capacity than a typical floppy. Smaller, more compact, and less fragile than CD/DVD: A USB key drives storage medium will never scratch, and it is much more rigid than CD/DVD ...

USB Write access or USB Write protection is the ... Hardware writes protection is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks. In hardware write protection there will be a mechanical ...

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage medium ...

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

The upgrades would replace the city's 30-year-old automatic system and enable faster, shorter and smoother rides.