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LAKE FOREST, California—It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in the 1990s says business is still booming.

By 2006, the 3.5-inch floppy disk was decidedly legacy. By 2015, it was nearly extinct. But, even though no modern devices offer a floppy disk drive, there's still a healthy market for them.

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

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.