The floppies have been part of the Muni Metro's Automatic Train Control System [ATCS] since its installation in the Market Street subway stop in 1998. Click to expand... There's some confusion here.

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

The Muni Metro Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) is set to get an upgrade to its operations that will put it approximately five generations ahead of its current system, which now runs on 5.25-inch ...

Sony, which has a 70 percent share of the Japanese market for 3.5-inch floppy discs, will discontinue sales of those discs in that country and withdraw from the market at the end of March 2011, ...

Q: I'm a doctor who was a medical missionary in Madagascar for 40 years, and the time has come for me to write my memoirs. But to do that I need access to my old e-mails and correspondence that were ...

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 ...