Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030

sirico@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes though the failure rate of actually trying to read it later when you need it is quite high in my experience.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This person had a C64

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    • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      First tape experience was a TRS-80. Later moved on to DATS on various Unix boxes, AIX, Solaris, Linux.

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      • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mine was an acorn nothing like coming back from waiting for a last ninja to load with a nice read error instead

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