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 | 226 ...

Troubleshooting 3.5-inch floppy disks It’s actually pretty amazing that I can pop a disk from the 1980s into a Windows 11 PC sold this year and reasonably expect to read its data. Yet while it ...

Retro fans might also appreciate that behind the upper faux 5.25-inch floppy door you can fit an optical disk drive, or any ...

As for the 3.5-inch floppy, he can’t say how many more disks are out there. “There’s a worldwide inventory of disks that were manufactured 10 or 20 or 30 years ago,” Persky says. “That ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn ...

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.

Yes, we're talking about the good old 5.25-inch floppy disk, which is somehow still being utilized for something as important as a critical function of a public transport network within a major city.

Three decades after Apple's Macintosh was born, a prototype machine with a 5.25-inch "Twiggy" floppy-disk drive gets fired up in front of members of the original Mac development team.

Floppy disks (FDs), magnetic disks that record information on personal computers, were widely used mainly from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Programmer Jonathan Palant explains about such FD. JP's ...

The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s ...

In 1981, Sony launched the classic 3.5-inch disk for the first time, and it was widely used in production. In 1984, Apple’s well-known MAC had a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive.

"We have to maintain programmers who are experts in the programming languages of the '90s in order to keep running our current system, so we have a technical debt that stretches back many decades ...