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"Really old tech" is everywhere. For example Germany's high speed trains' reservation system runs on floppy disks.
by anc84 10y ago
"Really old tech" is everywhere. For example Germany's high speed trains' reservation system runs on floppy disks.
- lb1lf 10y ago...and if you're not careful when ordering Siemens Simatic software, the accompanying licence file arrives on a yellow 3,5" floppy. Don't ask me how I know. It took AGES to purge our ERP system of any reference to the Siemens item# which resulted in a floppy showing up. On the other hand, it resulted in some business for both DHL and whoever still manufactures floppy drives nowadays - service engineers opening a package somewhere in the world, finding what kids today would assume was a 3d-printed 'save' icon - and order a drive, double haste...
- prewett 10y ago+1 for "3d-printed 'save' icon"!
- germanier 10y agoSadly they replaced that with a wireless system in most trains a few years ago. But you find a lot of old tech in the train system. Some traffic control was built 50+ years ago with even older technology.