FullOfBallooons@leminal.space to Retro Technology@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months ago5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-link5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030arstechnica.comFullOfBallooons@leminal.space to Retro Technology@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square1fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.zip
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.
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThat 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
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