The US Federal Aviation Administration has announced plans to stop using floppy disks in its air traffic control information display systems. The agency says the change will be completed at 435 sites by the end of 2028, and describes it as a historic technology upgrade. The move is intended to give air traffic controllers faster access to data used for safety alerts. Floppy disks have remained in use in some aviation systems long after they disappeared from consumer computing.
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