{"id":33132,"date":"2024-04-11T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=33132"},"modified":"2024-04-11T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:27:44","slug":"floppy-disk-reliant-san-francisco-train-control-system-spurs-concerns-of-catastrophic-failure-and-it-wont-be-replaced-for-at-least-another-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=33132","title":{"rendered":"Floppy disk-reliant San Francisco train control system spurs concerns of &#8216;catastrophic failure&#8217; \u2014 and it won&#8217;t be replaced for at least another decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/UiidKaSXk84wxmUCfK7z3F-320-80.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">We hope the SFMTA exec wasn&#8217;t talking about a human catastrophe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/floppy-disk-reliant-san-francisco-train-control-system-spurs-concerns-of-catastrophic-failure-and-it-wont-be-replaced-for-at-least-another-decade\">Floppy disk-reliant San Francisco train control system spurs concerns of &#8216;catastrophic failure&#8217; \u2014 and it won&#8217;t be replaced for at least another decade<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>i think they just need one of these to start using USB sticks, like we did at QM some years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/usb-drive-to-floppy-disk-interface-2024-04-11_16-23-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/usb-drive-to-floppy-disk-interface-2024-04-11_16-23-09-1024x617.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33135\" width=\"639\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/usb-drive-to-floppy-disk-interface-2024-04-11_16-23-09-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/usb-drive-to-floppy-disk-interface-2024-04-11_16-23-09-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/usb-drive-to-floppy-disk-interface-2024-04-11_16-23-09-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/usb-drive-to-floppy-disk-interface-2024-04-11_16-23-09-750x452.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/usb-drive-to-floppy-disk-interface-2024-04-11_16-23-09-675x407.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/usb-drive-to-floppy-disk-interface-2024-04-11_16-23-09.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope the SFMTA exec wasn&#8217;t talking about a human catastrophe. Source:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1447,551,170,1210],"class_list":["post-33132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-floppy-disks","tag-san-francisco","tag-trains","tag-usb","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33136,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132\/revisions\/33136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}