Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They adopted the system in 1998, when actually floppy floppies were already obsolete. Oof.
Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They adopted the system in 1998, when actually floppy floppies were already obsolete. Oof.
Lwaxana@startrek.website 7 months ago
It’s called proven technology sweaty.
Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 months ago
CDs were released in 1982 and pretty damn stable. One year after 3.5 floppys…6 years after 5.25 floppys.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ISO 9660 wasn’t around until '88, and even then, its read-only capability paired with high costs wouldn’t make it viable until maybe a decade later … ironically, around the time the system was deployed.
Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I mean 1989 was the last time I used a 5.25 in elementary before everything was switched to 3.5 with the IBM Model 30.