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Floppy Disks: A Brief History
Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...
When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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 ...
The Pippin was Apple’s first and last foray into gaming consoles ... The first test used the Floppy Emu, a neat device that allows old Macs to read disk images off an SD card.
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. The deal is ...
Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...
The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.
(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 ...
The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...
Transportation officials in San Francisco took a step towards modernizing the train control system that powers the Muni Metro ...
Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.