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by ilya_m 805 days ago
Upgrade? More like launch the process of planning for drafting a bid solicitation announcement. If I were 3.5" floppies, I wouldn't worry about retirement any time soon.
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ForOldHack 805 days ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/5-25-inch-floppy-dis...

"The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city's Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt floppy disks. But today, the SFMTA is eager to abandon its reliance on 5¼-inch floppy disks—just give it about six more years and a few hundred more million dollars."

yea for Unicode Character “¼”

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ForOldHack 805 days ago
No, not 3.5, they said 5, but I think they mean 5 1/4. Think they could use floppy emulators, and get another 20 years out of the controls?
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phire 805 days ago
The reporter said "it runs off three five inch floppy disks"

It's unlikely a system deployed in 1998 would be using three separate 5¼" floppies. I'd believe a single 5¼" floppy, but not three of them.

It's much more likely the system boots off uses a single 3.5" floppy, and the reporter forgot to read out the "point"

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