They are obviously of the “If-It-Ain’t-Broke-Don’t-Fix-It” people. A once dominant group, they also age slowly, have the longest memories and loquaciously share them.
Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 months agoThere are many replacements for disk drives available where you can just use memory cards instead, and the old system won’t notice the difference. It’s odd that they used 5.25" floppies in the first place and odd that they don’t take this simple step to make the system more reliable and maintainable.
oDDmON@lemmy.world 8 months ago
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yeah, I’m guessing there must be some archaic code in their system (probably undocumented and which no one understands) keeping them from taking that step. I’ve worked in the embroidery industry for quite a while and our machines used 3.5 inch floppies for years. We finally upgraded to a drop-in USB replacement like 5 years ago.