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

Maybe they meant home computers, and that’s all most of their audience will picture in their heads, anyway. But yeah, not a very good computer historian.

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In 1990 I bought my first (very used PC) which had a 20MB hard drive in it. I In 1996 I upgraded my home computer to the largest consumer hard drive available 1.6GB.

For reference, a floppy disk pictured hold 1.44MB.

We had hard drives in home computers there too.

Oh, 1998. My bad.

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