5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
arstechnica.com 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
"We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades."
I'm kind of shocked that they built the system in '98 and decided to use 5.25 floppies instead of the 3.5 ones.
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That is weird. Also weird: since it runs on DOS and floppies, a DOS VM with virtual boot disks seems like the easiest way to continue without their current worry of floppy disk degradation