America's air traffic control network runs on decades-old technology, and the acting FAA director wants to replace the whole system.

Y our flight’s on-time arrival depends on technology older than TikTok. The Federal Aviation Administration still runs legacy air traffic control systems on Windows 95 computers and floppy disks ...

Some controllers currently use paper strips to track aircraft movements and transfer data between systems using floppy disks, while their computers run Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system ... in ...

Launching DOSBox and getting through the ancient DOS command-line interface with a touchscreen and stylus was no picnic. But for anyone old enough to remember a world before Windows, the process ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. 20 years ago today, Microsoft launched Windows 95 and forever changed the way people ...

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It's the Windows 95 start-up sound, and it's recently been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings. Alongside "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John, ...

In brief: It's 2025, and the FAA has decided it's time to stop using floppy disks and Windows 95 for air traffic control. The head of the agency, Chris Rocheleau, wants to replace the archaic ...

The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from 5.25-inch floppy disks, with upgrades not expected until 2030 due to ...