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Muni Metro also plans to ditch super-slow loop cable communication system.
Muni Metro also plans to ditch super-slow loop cable communication system.
People are still using floppies?
Yup. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/german-navy-still-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-working-on-emulating-a-replacement/
AFAIK there are long term science programs that are using archaic computer systems so probably yes.
I’d like to read about those. Can you link some?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a27928/22-years-later-windows-95/
Mostly anecdotal from comments and whatnot, but here is a PM article
It took until 2019 for the US to give up the 8” floppies that ran its nuclear launch systems.
https://www.cnet.com/science/us-military-retires-floppy-disks-used-by-nuclear-weapons-system/