The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.

In addition to replacing the system, the contract requires Hitachi to service it for 20 years. Although talks of ditching floppies and upgrading the system started in 2018, the authority had to stop ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

San Francisco Muni has approved a contract that will replace the train control system for the Market Street Subway (highlighted in yellow), which currently has a system using a floppy disk drive. San ...

In a way, we don’t miss these days, but in other ways, we do. It wasn’t that long ago that floppies were king. Now it is a race to preserve the data on them while you still can.

Floppies were once the standard method of information exchange, but decades of storage can render them unreadable, especially if mold sets in. [Rob Smith] wanted to clean some floppies in style ...