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 ...

The FAA is set to overhaul its ancient air traffic control systems that still uses a combination of Windows 95, floppy disks, ...

Ancient technologies like Windows XP, Commodore 64, and legacy COBOL programs are still being used for all kinds of critical ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is finally pulling the plug on its outdated air traffic control systems. How ...

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

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be ...

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 ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern ...

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 ...

Musician Espen Kraft stores his sound samples on floppy disks, using them to make his music for their authentic sound (Credit: Espen Kraft) The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and ...

By John Yoon Hisako Ueno and Kiuko Notoya Hisako Ueno has used floppy disks extensively. Kiuko Notoya and John Yoon never have. July 5, 2024 Japan scrapped every regulation requiring the use of ...