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San Francisco whitethorn beryllium successful Silicon Valley, but portion of its obstruction strategy is still moving connected exertion that hasn't been connected nan cutting separator since nan Reagan administration.
Officials from nan San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) told KGO-TV successful a caller question and reply that 5.25-inch floppy disks are still utilized to run nan city's train power system.
San Francisco Muni Metro ray obstruction and a 5.25-inch floppy disk. (Getty / Getty Images)
SFMTA, which operates San Francisco's Muni Metro light obstruction system, has been utilizing floppy disks to tally nan trains since 1998.
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"We were nan first agency successful nan U.S. to adopt this peculiar technology, but it was from an era that computers didn't person a difficult drive, truthful you person to load nan package from floppy disks connected to nan computer," Mariana Maguire of nan SFMTA Train Control Project told KGO.
San Francisco MUNI Metro trains beryllium parked astatine nan Curtis E. Green Light Rail Center connected March 30, 2020, successful San Francisco, California (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images / Getty Images)
The outlet reported nan strategy was built to past up to 25 years, and now that it is simply a twelvemonth past, officials fearfulness it could break down.
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"The strategy is presently moving conscionable fine, but we cognize that pinch each expanding year, nan consequence of information degradation connected nan floppy disks increases and that astatine immoderate constituent location will beryllium a catastrophic failure," SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin said successful nan interview.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency head Jeffrey Tumlin successful San Francisco, Calif., connected Tuesday, November 12, 2019. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images / Getty Images)
However, he explained, upgrading nan strategy would return a decade and costs hundreds of millions of dollars.
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"We are hoping that a ample constituent of this will travel from state and national grants," Tumlin told KGO. "The remainder of it will travel from Muni's quickly declining soul superior resources."
