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

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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.

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bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Compact flash? Nah, that was primetime for Iomega Zip Drives!

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- clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Fear the click of death!
  
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- cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Fuck yo Zip Drives, all my homies use SyQuest
  
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- cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It would have been replaced a long time ago if that was the case.
  
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- ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  SuperDisk gang ride up!
  
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dgmib@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s not quite as crazy as it seems. The older/larger floppy disk formats were more reliable due to their lower track density.

There was more surface area per byte of data. The old floppy disks could be written once and read for years in harsher environments. New floppy disks we more prone to failure after a few years.

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