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You've got to hand it to floppy disks. The now 55-year-old storage tech occasionally crops up in the most surprising of places, like a San Francisco light rail line or, previously, US nuclear launch facilities.

One last holdout appears to be the Federal Aviation Administration, which still uses the disks for data storage within the US air traffic control system (via Ars Technica). Not for much longer, it seems, as US transportation secretary Sean P. Duffy has announced the widespread rollout of their long-overdue replacement.