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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (arstechnica.com)

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I'm kind of shocked that they built the system in '98 and decided to use 5.25 floppies instead of the 3.5 ones.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That is weird. Also weird: since it runs on DOS and floppies, a DOS VM with virtual boot disks seems like the easiest way to continue without their current worry of floppy disk degradation