That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...

Oh, the exciting life I've led! In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then ...

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics.

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

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

RELATED: SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure' before upgrade It would replace the system Muni's been running on since 1998 -- outdated tech that involves ...

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

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