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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks(arstechnica.com)

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All the deserved ribbing aside, if you had to design a removable, R/W, high-capacity, environmentally tolerant, secure, fault-tolerant, mission critical storage system that could last 25 years, starting NOW…

What would you pick?

That’s a tough one, even if you design future hardware upgrades into the system.

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