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 meant that at some point there will be “a catastrophic failure.”
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