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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks (arstechnica.com)
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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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[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago

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

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

Fear the click of death!

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Fuck yo Zip Drives, all my homies use SyQuest

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

SuperDisk gang ride up!

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