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Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

arstechnica.com

Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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Muni Metro also plans to ditch super-slow loop cable communication system.

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

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    Hey man, you got any of them floppies?

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      Far more than I am proud to say, far more.

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