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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 14:36:22 JST jwz

   MUNI Floppy.
   SF's Market Street Subway Is Running on Reagan-Era Technology: "Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drives," SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin told KQED's...
   https://jwz.org/b/yj9j

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 14:36:21 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @jwz Might be more reliable than a rewrite of the codebase, though.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 21:04:26 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Tommy Thorn

     @tommythorn @jwz Yeah, that was the only thing I found unusual there.

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     Tommy Thorn (tommythorn@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 21:04:28 JST Tommy Thorn

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail @jwz 100% Just ask IRS how their nth attempted reimplementation is going. I would however consider using a floppy emulator. It should be possible to find one that is more reliable than the original physical product.