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Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5"

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Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5"

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SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure' before upgrade

SFMTA's train system in San Francisco is not only relying on humans to run it, but turns out that a floppy disk has been playing a key role for decades.

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Ah yes, the stone age of 1998, “an era when computers didn’t have a hard drive”.🤦🤦🤦🤦

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