The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still using old floppy disks to run its trains. Moreover, it could take as much as 10 years to upgrade the current 26-year-old system. Earlier this ...

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 ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation Agency ...

WTF?! Joining the list of organizations still using archaic technology is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which has a train control system still reliant on floppy disks.

San Francisco is not yet done using obsolete, retro technology known as 'floppy disks,' particularly for some of its operations on the city trains. More specifically, the 5.25-inch floppy disks are ...

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 ...

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

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.