Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
Pistcow@lemm.ee 8 months agoCDs were released in 1982 and pretty damn stable. One year after 3.5 floppys…6 years after 5.25 floppys.
Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
Pistcow@lemm.ee 8 months agoCDs were released in 1982 and pretty damn stable. One year after 3.5 floppys…6 years after 5.25 floppys.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 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 8 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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know I was still using 5¼" floppies at least a bit into the early '90s, though it’s been long enough that exact years elude me.
I was also still developing technology that used 3½" diskettes well into the first decade of the new millennium - though I finally managed to migrate newer systems to CD-R around the end of that decade.