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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks (arstechnica.com)
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See also: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/5-25-inch-floppy-disks-expected-to-help-run-san-francisco-trains-until-2030/ \ https://lemmy.ca/post/19158929

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

5.25" floppies were obsolete for years before they even installed the system in 1998. They could have been using compact flash cards by then.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 34 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Compact flash? Nah, that was primetime for Iomega Zip Drives!

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 weeks ago

Fear the click of death!

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Fuck yo Zip Drives, all my homies use SyQuest

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago

It would have been replaced a long time ago if that was the case.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

SuperDisk gang ride up!

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

It’s not quite as crazy as it seems. The older/larger floppy disk formats were more reliable due to their lower track density.

There was more surface area per byte of data. The old floppy disks could be written once and read for years in harsher environments. New floppy disks we more prone to failure after a few years.