The subway in San Francisco still runs on 5 1/4-inch floppies. “Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drives.”
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The subway in San Francisco still runs on 5 1/4-inch floppies. “Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drives.”
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