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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] clay_pidgin 22 points 5 months ago

Fear the click of death!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Fuck yo Zip Drives, all my homies use SyQuest

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] ayyy 1 points 5 months ago

SuperDisk gang ride up!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months 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.