San Francisco is paying millions to end reliance on this iconic, but ancient technology — floppy disks still powering the Muni Metro light rail system on DOS software
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San Francisco's Muni Metro is upgrading its outdated floppy disk-based train control system with a $212 million contract for modern technology. The new system, to be implemented by 2027-2028, will use Wi-Fi and cell signals to track trains across the entire network, replacing the 1998 system that relies on obsolete hardware and slow data transfer.
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