free@rss.ponder.catMB to Ars Technica - All Content@rss.ponder.catEnglish · 22 days agoSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziphardware@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·22 days agoDidn’t we see a nearly identical article about this a few months ago? Anyway, I’ll reiterate my amazement that they adopted this system well after 5¼" floppies were already obsolete - and the smaller 3½" diskettes were already on their way out.
minus-squaremynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·22 days agoYeah when I first heard about it I assumed we were talking 3.5in floppies. I still don’t understand why a floppy emulator was so hard to implement, but moving to an entirely new system with support makes sense.
Didn’t we see a nearly identical article about this a few months ago?
Anyway, I’ll reiterate my amazement that they adopted this system well after 5¼" floppies were already obsolete - and the smaller 3½" diskettes were already on their way out.
Yeah when I first heard about it I assumed we were talking 3.5in floppies.
I still don’t understand why a floppy emulator was so hard to implement, but moving to an entirely new system with support makes sense.