5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 "We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades." Scharon Harding – Apr 10, 2024 12:34 pm ...

There's some confusion here. The article and its photo refer to 5.25 inch floppies. Even on the linked TV report, the lady reporter also refers to the floppy as 5 and a quarter inch floppy disk.

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.

San Francisco will spend $212 million to bid 5.25-inch floppy disks goodbye — Muni Metro light rail upgrade represents a $700 million investment. Story by Christopher Harper • 1w.

His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...

Officials from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) told KGO-TV in a recent interview that 5.25-inch floppy disks are still used to operate the city's train control system.

To the average consumer, floppy disks have not been relevant for a long time. Your PC might not even have an optical disk drive these days, let alone a 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch floppy drive.

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.

The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch floppy disk labeled "AIDS Information – Introductory Diskette 2.0." ...