Then in October came the news that the San Francisco Muni Metro light rail system’s DOS-based floppy disk solution was finally being overhauled, at the cost of $212 million. The VGA (Video ...

Mariana Maguire: "The floppy disk is one component of one system ... said upgrading the system will take another decade and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. "The detail project schedule ...

There he found an ISA board capable of controlling up to eight drives from [Sergey Kiselev] called the Monster Floppy Disk Controller ... made the production cost jump from $5 to nearly $300.

The 1.44Mb floppy is dead and we should organise its funeral,' he ... The CD drive costs #435 and a pack of two disks costs #65.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...