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

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

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in ... It has no hard drive and it's too unstable to be left on, so every morning, in goes the disk, and off goes the trains.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Two-thirds of under-18s don't know what a floppy disk is In 2018, researchers showed 2,011 kids photos of different technologies ... material and enclosed in a hard square plastic case.

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Choose your external hard disk and select “Scan for lost data”. Step 2. The software will scan the whole disk, and all the missing pictures, documents, videos, zip files, and audio files will ...

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.

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 Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

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 ...