Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1334arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1329arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comTodd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
See also: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/5-25-inch-floppy-disks-expected-to-help-run-san-francisco-trains-until-2030/ \ https://lemmy.ca/post/19158929
minus-squareseaQueue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·12 days agoUntil someone forgets the terminator on one end of the network and the token falls out
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-212 days ago“That’s why we’ve got a bucket under the wire’s end. Token spillage is a pain in the ass to sweep up. At the end of the day we just collect the bucket and put all the tokens back in the first machine.”
Until someone forgets the terminator on one end of the network and the token falls out
“That’s why we’ve got a bucket under the wire’s end. Token spillage is a pain in the ass to sweep up. At the end of the day we just collect the bucket and put all the tokens back in the first machine.”