Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1346arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziphardware@lemmy.world
arrow-up1341arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comTodd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziphardware@lemmy.world
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
minus-squareseaQueue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoUntil someone forgets the terminator on one end of the network and the token falls out
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months ago“That’s why we’ve got a bucket under the wire’s end. Token spillage is a pain in the ass to sweep up. At the end of the day we just collect the bucket and put all the tokens back in the first machine.”
Until someone forgets the terminator on one end of the network and the token falls out
“That’s why we’ve got a bucket under the wire’s end. Token spillage is a pain in the ass to sweep up. At the end of the day we just collect the bucket and put all the tokens back in the first machine.”