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

This would lead to a consortium of 21 companies coming together to standardize the format. 1983 saw the introduction of ...

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.

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 ...

Graham has created a custom archival system using parts from disk duplicators and our favorite SBC, the Raspberry Pi, to automatically process stacks of floppy disks and back them up onto a USB drive.

Various other organizations have also been slow to ditch the dated storage format, including in Japan, which only stopped using floppy disks in governmental systems in June, and the German navy ...

Floppy disks may have been at the forefront of digital storage in the 1980s, but the format has been replaced multiple times over by 2024.