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San Francisco metro says goodbye to 5.25" floppies

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

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Oct 25, 2024
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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…

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