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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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[โ€“] seaQueue 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Until someone forgets the terminator on one end of the network and the token falls out

[โ€“] rtxn 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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."