San Francisco metro says goodbye to 5.25" floppies

Don't copy that floppy. In fact, get rid of it entirely.

Photo: SF Muni

Forget 3.5" floppies—San Francisco's Muni Metro is one of the few transit systems still using 5.25" ones. But not for much longer: the vintage storage media will be replaced as part of a $212m overhaul of railroad computer systems there.

In April, SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin said the increasing risk of the disks suffering data degradation…