The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

Oh, the exciting life I've led! In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then ...

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics.

The floppy disk is a technology that is known only to the youth of today as the inspiration for the Save icon. There’s a lot of retro computing history tied up in these fragile platters ...

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

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The SFMTA will receive $130 million to partially fund the software modernization as part of $1.3 billion the California State ...

RELATED: SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure' before upgrade It would replace the system Muni's been running on since 1998 -- outdated tech that involves ...

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...