Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has ...
Ars Technica

5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city’s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt the train control system it currently uses, which has ...
GizChina

It's 2022 and Japan is still using floppy disks?

What? Japan had to declare war on floppy disks? The country’s digital minister, Taro Kono, publicly stated this on Twitter. According to the minister, the Japanese government has too many businesses ...
Ars Technica

Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use

Digital Minister declares a war on floppy discs. There are about 1900 government procedures that requires business community to use discs, i. e. floppy disc, CD, MD, etc to submit applications and ...
Yahoo

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced ...