Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1344arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1340arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comTodd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
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
minus-squareEleventhHour@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·3 days agoGee, I wonder how much this would’ve cost in the past before they kept putting it off
minus-squareNot a replicant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 days ago“If you think this is expensive now, wait for 20 years” “Not a problem, I’ll be retired by then, it’ll be someone else’s problem”
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoHands up who’s “someone else” where they work right now✋
Gee, I wonder how much this would’ve cost in the past before they kept putting it off
“If you think this is expensive now, wait for 20 years” “Not a problem, I’ll be retired by then, it’ll be someone else’s problem”
Hands up who’s “someone else” where they work right now✋