The funding, awarded by the California Transportation Commission, will enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

Jokes about the antiquated technology that runs Muni's subway have long made the rounds among riders. But the floppy disk software has passed its expiration date.

At the Centre for Computing History, Adrian Page-Mitchell reported challenges with 3.5-inch floppy disks, where brittle plastics and off-gassing can affect the media inside. Page-Mitchell also ...

Floppy disks still fly—literally. Here’s why some airplanes in 2025 still rely on 1990s tech for navigation updates.

Instead the original mac drive would vary the spinning/rotation speed of the disk as it read/wrote the data, unlike the standard IBM 3.5inch floppy drives which operate at a constant RPM speed.

Hard drive storage will soon become part of computing history, says expert It simply does not make sense to keep the disks spinning. Updated: Mar 17, 2025 05:16 AM EST ...

Yep, floppy disks and floppy drives required the same thing: formatting. When HDDs became viable for use is PCs (the small form factor of 5.25" and smaller instead of 8" or larger) they picked up the ...

VHS defeated Betamax, Blu-ray defeated HD DVD, and in this case, the floppy disk (kinda) defeated the Zip drive.

The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable.

The spinning song Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

Using a disk drive today is trivial. But back “in the day,” it was fairly complex both because the drives were simple and the CPUs were not powerful by today’s standards. [Thomas] has been ...