Muni Metro also plans to ditch super-slow loop cable communication system.
5.25" disks seem like they would’ve been outdated when they were installed in 1998, although I suppose the system design probably started much earlier.
Looped cable networks? Like Netware token-ring networks? Wow… I haven’t seen one of those and almost 30 years. Even then, it was obsolete, because ethernet TCP/IP networking had become much more popular.
People are still using floppies?
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.
A 60 Minutes tour of the US nuclear control center in 2014 gave the public a glimpse behind the curtain of how the defense sector works. It also revealed that in the event that the US president ordered the launch of a nuclear warhead, the command would rely on 8-inch floppy disks and a 1970s era IBM Series/1 mainframe computer.
Rossi told C4isrnet that though the overall computer system is old, its age provides security.
“You can’t hack something that doesn’t have an IP address. It’s a very unique system – it is old and it is very good,” Rossi told the publication.
https://www.cnet.com/science/us-military-retires-floppy-disks-used-by-nuclear-weapons-system/
