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

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Join us on Wednesday, February 2 at noon Pacific for the Floppy Interfacing ... fooling around with archaic storage technology like floppy disks. With several orders of magnitude less storage ...

Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip disk and Floptical. (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs. With a 2.88MB capacity ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

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

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...

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.

Intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS) occurs owing to drug-induced blockade of the α-1a receptors present in the iris dilator muscle in a large proportion of patients who take or have ...

a floppy disk, a doorbell, a Game Boy cartridge, an electric toothbrush, a Big Mouth Billy Bass, a HitClip, an answering machine, a music box, and more. The announcement reads: Instead of ...