Before cloud storage, we risked everything to back up our files ...

Floppy disks may seem like a relic from an ancient time of computers but there are still places and even governments in the world that still use them to run its most basic functions. Japan is no ...

Two pilots managing software in an airplane cockpit - Rathke/Getty Images The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing ...

When you think of Japan, you might visualize ultra-modern bullet trains and self-cleaning toilets. But the other side of the story is the country was using floppy drives for government procedures at a ...

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage ...

The mantra “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” only works for so long. Eventually, even if a system is still working fine, you’re going to want to upgrade it. That’s the lesson from the San Francisco ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city’s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt the train control system it currently uses, which has ...