TechnologyEnglish • 11 months ago

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TechnologyEnglish • 11 months ago

SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure' before upgrade

SFMTA's train system in San Francisco is not only relying on humans to run it, but turns out that a floppy disk has been playing a key role for decades.

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2•11 months ago
Ohhh, good info! I didn’t realize. Well, that’s gonna suck for a lot of people in a lot of industries sometime soon.
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  3•11 months ago
  That’s demand. Maybe somebody’s going to start making them again. Like with vinyl.

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