Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
sirico@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Tape still one of the most stable storage mediums
Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
sirico@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Tape still one of the most stable storage mediums
realitista@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yes though the failure rate of actually trying to read it later when you need it is quite high in my experience.
sirico@feddit.uk 7 months ago
This person had a C64
realitista@lemm.ee 7 months ago
First tape experience was a TRS-80. Later moved on to DATS on various Unix boxes, AIX, Solaris, Linux.
sirico@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Mine was an acorn nothing like coming back from waiting for a last ninja to load with a nice read error instead