Todd Bonzalez to TechnologyEnglish • 12 hours agoSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: hardware[email protected]
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comTodd Bonzalez to TechnologyEnglish • 12 hours agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hardware[email protected]
See also: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/5-25-inch-floppy-disks-expected-to-help-run-san-francisco-trains-until-2030/ \ https://lemmy.ca/post/19158929
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish35•11 hours ago5.25" floppies were obsolete for years before they even installed the system in 1998. They could have been using compact flash cards by then.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish27•11 hours agoCompact flash? Nah, that was primetime for Iomega Zip Drives!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•10 hours agoIt would have been replaced a long time ago if that was the case.
5.25" floppies were obsolete for years before they even installed the system in 1998. They could have been using compact flash cards by then.
Compact flash? Nah, that was primetime for Iomega Zip Drives!
Fear the click of death!
Fuck yo Zip Drives, all my homies use SyQuest
It would have been replaced a long time ago if that was the case.