The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from ...

A new bill supports air traffic control recruitment and retention efforts and mental health services for controllers. Here's ...

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) has confirmed that the US air traffic control system still runs on somewhat ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is finally pulling the plug on its outdated air traffic control systems.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

The acting FAA administrator laid out a plan to the House Appropriations Committee to launch a comprehensive upgrade of the ...

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

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

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 ...