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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

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 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 ...

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The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to ...

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

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

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 Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...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 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks. The Muni Metro’s Automatic Train Control ...

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.