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376 FAA To Eliminate Floppy Disks Used In Air Traffic Control Systems

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/09/2025 23:30 EDT

FAA To Eliminate Floppy Disks Used In Air Traffic Control Systems

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: The head of the Federal Aviation Administration just outlined an ambitious goal to upgrade the U.S.'s air traffic control (ATC) system and bring it into the 21st century. According to NPR, most ATC towers and other facilities today feel like they're stuck in the 20th century, with controllers using paper strips and floppy disks to transfer data, while their computers run Windows 95. While this likely saved them from the disastrous CrowdStrike outage t

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