San Francisco OKs $212M plan to finally replace aging train system run by floppy disks
The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...
This Raspberry Pi automatically archives a stack of Amiga floppy disks
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.
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San Francisco will spend $212 million to bid 5.25-inch floppy disks goodbye — Muni Metro light rail upgrade represents a $700 million investment
This isn't the only example in recent memory of a government finally doing away with floppy disks. This past year ... an era when computers didn't have hard drives." It's also worth noting ...
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How to recover data from external hard disk in 5 ways
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 ...
Muni Metro Leaves Floppy Disks Behind With $130 Million State Grant
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 ...
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Master Boot Record (MBR) vs. GPT: Which is Right for Your Hard Drive?
The MBR's boot code uses the volume boot code of that specific partition to identify where the system partition is. That ...
You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid
Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa’s history.