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 ...

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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated ... and was awarded the "journalist-at-large" fellowship by the Local Trust charity in 2021.

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

That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared ... which sells and recycles floppy disks, said in 2022 that the airline industry remains one of his biggest customers.

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars ...

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 ...

On the contrary, we had a stack of 3.5-inch floppy disks with ... with the largest files at the top, a disk use percentage, and the total file size of that subtree. A breakdown on the right ...

The first Macs didn't have SSD or hard drives, but used small 3.5-inch floppy ... disk. Click Erase again in the alert and the Finder will erase the volume. Unless the volume has a huge size ...

A $130 million state grant will upgrade the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's train control system after 30 years of relying on floppy disks. The grant announced Thursday will mean ...

Tom Persky, the founder of floppydisk.com — which sells and recycles floppy disks — said that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers in the new book "Floppy Disk Fever ...