What is it with Fog City and ancient transport tech?
Those taking public transport in the tech hub of San Francisco may be reassured to know that their rides will soon no longer be dependent on floppy disks.that the city's automatic light-rail control system is running on outdated tech and"relies on three five-inch floppy disks" to boot up. The reporter was holding a 3.5-inch disk in the broadcast, so may have just skipped the word"point".
The agency noted that its system was installed in 1998, when floppies were still in common use and, er,"computers didn't have hard drives." That doesn't exactly match reality, since hard drives were already very common at the time – here's afrom 1998 about drives sold at the time, in sizes ranging from 5GB to 16.8GB.
"We were the first agency in the US to adopt this particular technology, but it was from an era that computers didn't have a hard drive, so you have to load the software from floppy disks onto the computer," SFMTA's PR Mariana Maguire argued.
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