Respect to Comrade 5.25" in his stalwart support of the People's transportation
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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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, or the system retrofitted to read the same data from a different medium, but I can see where a more modern system would provide a lot of advantages. It doesn't really sound like anyone in this article knows the nitty gritty details that well, though the bit about the loop cable is good.
The SFMTA is looking to upgrade to "modern technologies, such as fiber optic or Wi-Fi," Roccaforte said.
PLEASE do not use wifi to run your trains lmao
They should run them with extension cords instead
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?
They started using 5 1/4 inch floppies in 1998? That was already kinda late for those.
lol for real. 5.25" were like 360KB. the universal standard by then was 3.5" (1.44 MB) disks and had been for several years. CD-ROMs with 700MB we're all over by 1994.
the real heads had CD-Rs by 1998 and we're making mix CDs and imaging cracked WaReZ.
3.5" floppies were getting passé in 98, Zipsdisks were hot shit
bazingas and wanting to replace established technology with some convoluted webshit. name a more iconic dual. Unlimited BART derailments. infinite genocide on bazingas.