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When I wrote about a modern OS that could run on a floppy disk, I knew I had to try it. Something about going back to the old ...

The boot time is remarkably speedy, too. In a recent video, YouTuber Michael MJD demonstrated KolibriOS booting within a few minutes off a 3.5" floppy disk and in around five seconds off a CD-ROM on ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

A recent Linux kernel is rarely if ever compiled for something as small as a floppy disk, so getting one to boot from such ancient media appeared to be a challenge. It was possible though with the ...

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

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

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

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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 ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

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