The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking contractors to modernize its decades-old computer systems within four years.

Just one moment, my traffic controller needs to swap out their floppy disk… there we go." Those are disquieting words you ...

FAA finally ditches floppy disks and Windows 95 from air traffic control in massive $billions upgrade. What this means for ...

According to the acting head of the FAA, air traffic control will also stop using paper printouts and Windows 95.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that the US air traffic control system still runs on somewhat ...

Air traffic controllers also still use slips of paper containing flight numbers to help track the approximately 45,000 ...

Starting with a disk caddy on linear rails, [Smith] has a track for the floppy to follow. First it goes through a set of pads with cleaning solution on them, and is then dried off with heating ...

The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them? When an idea for a new ...

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we ...

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...

In Japan, there have long been laws and regulations that specify using floppy disks for submitting application data in some ...

said it would halt floppy disk sales in 2011 due to dwindling demand. In 2009, Sony had a 70% share of the Japanese domestic floppy disk market, which amounted to about 12 million disks in total ...