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

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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 Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

Just over a year ago, the team programmed a Raspberry Pi Pico to read floppy disks. Now, they've taken ... and emulate a real floppy drive. It's also worth mentioning that Adafruit isn't alone ...

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In a major upgrade effort, San Francisco’s public transit system is investing $212 million to replace outdated floppy ...

The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to ...

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.

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 ...

The original Mac let you erase disks right on the Desktop, with the feature returning thanks to macOS Sequoia. Here's how to use it. When the original Mac was released in 1984, its desktop allowed ...