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

Hitachi Rail contract inked by SF transport board will kill the throwback San Francisco's Muni Metro could be finally getting ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library 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 Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing 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.

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

a floppy disk, a doorbell, a Game Boy cartridge, an electric toothbrush, a Big Mouth Billy Bass, a HitClip, an answering machine, a music box, and more. The announcement reads: Instead of ...

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 ...

The upgrades would replace the city's 30-year-old automatic system and enable faster, shorter and smoother rides.

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation ...