tree@lemmy.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months ago5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: retrotechnology@lemmy.catechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-link5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030arstechnica.comtree@lemmy.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: retrotechnology@lemmy.catechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.zip
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13402469 “We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades.”
minus-squareD61 [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months ago I don’t see why degradation of the individual physical floppies is a concern, since they can be imaged and written onto new(er) floppies… Anybody actually making them any more or are they stuck using old stock of veerrryyy questionable reliability?
Anybody actually making them any more or are they stuck using old stock of veerrryyy questionable reliability?