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5.25-inch floppy disks control San Francisco trains — but the city’s a step away from changing that.
SF’s transportation authority has approved a $212M contract for Hitachi to replace its Muni Metro control system and track its trains with Wi-Fi or cellular instead.
SF had forecast “catastrophic failure” if disks weren’t replaced. The SF Board of Supervisors still needs to approve the contract, SFMTA spokesperson Erica Kato confirms to The Verge.
S.F. Muni approves $212 million technology to replace floppy disks
[The San Francisco Chronicle]
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