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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The real question is why did they install a system based on 5.25" floppy disks in 1998 in the first place!?

The 5.25" floppy was surpassed by the 3.5" floppy by 1988 - ten years prior to this systems installation - and by 1998 most new software was being distributed on CD-ROM. So by my reckoning, in 1998 they installed a 'new' system based on hardware that was 1.5 generations out-of-date and haven't updated it in the 26 years since.

[โ€“] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

You must not be familiar with government procurement