A portrait of Indianapolis humor icon David Letterman made of floppy disks will be displayed in downtown InterContinental ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

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

(TNS) — San Francisco transportation officials moved a step closer this past week to modernizing the train control system that runs the Muni Metro system, eventually ridding it of a system that ...

A multimillion-dollar state grant will eventually bring the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s floppy-disk-based subway train-control system into the 21st century. The SFMTA will ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...

Over the past decade, local computer storage has become a relic, joining the likes of the floppy disk and CD-ROM ... an industry ripe for expansion, 24/7 Wall Street has performed analysis ...

all in an exceedingly short time frame. This was the first hurdle. The second hurdle was rapidly implementing effective solutions with aging systems and onboarding a flood of new data exchange ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation ...

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 ...