Muni Metro also plans to ditch super-slow loop cable communication system.
People are still using floppies?
San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
Submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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Reptorian@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It took until 2019 for the US to give up the 8” floppies that ran its nuclear launch systems.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 year ago
AFAIK there are long term science programs that are using archaic computer systems so probably yes.
lauha@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I’d like to read about those. Can you link some?
lgmjon64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
jqubed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
5.25" disks seem like they would’ve been outdated when they were installed in 1998, although I suppose the system design probably started much earlier.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looped cable networks? Like Netware token-ring networks? Wow… I haven’t seen one of those and almost 30 years.