The contagious hardware failure that turned Zip disks into data traps ...
Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...
When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence โ€” save ...
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the cityโ€™s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt the train control system it currently uses, which has ...
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I mean, hey, if it works. . . . I did find this quote curious: "The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks ...