Todd Bonzalez to TechnologyEnglish • 10 hours agoSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1206arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: hardware[email protected]
arrow-up1204arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comTodd Bonzalez to TechnologyEnglish • 10 hours agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-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@halcyoncmdrlinkEnglish16•6 hours agoAnd that cost includes decades of support. The $212 million contract includes support services from Hitachi for “20 to 25 years,” the Chronicle said.
And that cost includes decades of support.