The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

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 ...

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.

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The only thing that ages worse than integral computer technology is milk ... which requires three floppy disks to function on DOS. Yes, DOS. The Automatic Train Control System is designed to ...

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

While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks ... its onboard computer connects to the train ...

The Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh, and IBM PC all shipped with floppy drives. Despite my love of the old and crusty ...