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.

The answer? "Bake the tape at around 50-60°C to drive the moisture out, although this is only a temporary solution. It takes many hours to treat the typical large open reel half-inch tapes used by ...

In an era of cloud storage, AI copilots, and real-time GPS updates on your phone, it sounds absurd that some commercial airplanes still rely on floppy disks—yes, those 3.5-inch plastic squares ...

This effectively enables a stream of raw flux files to be written to a physical disk using a constant RPM 3.5inch drive (IBM) which can then be properly read by mac variable speed drive. See the forum ...

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 ...

The 1994 Iomega Zip (not to be confused with .zip compressed files) was known as a superfloppy, a high-capacity floppy disk for when that 1.44 MB wasn't cutting it.

Standard hard drives were also not designed for long-term archival use. You can almost never decouple the magnetic disks from the reading hardware inside, so if either fails, the whole drive dies.

There is discussion of how SSDs are not archival at all; how floppy disk quality varied greatly between the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s; how Linear Tape-Open, a format specifically designed for long ...

There are separate ROMs, RAMs, a floppy drive controller, and, of course, MIDI chips. Apparently, opening the box up is a challenge so [Nicole] suggests not doing it unless necessary.