San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks - eviltoast
Muni Metro also plans to ditch super-slow loop cable communication system.
  • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Until someone forgets the terminator on one end of the network and the token falls out

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 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.”