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"We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades."

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[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean 1989 was the last time I used a 5.25 in elementary before everything was switched to 3.5 with the IBM Model 30.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I know I was still using 5¼" floppies at least a bit into the early '90s, though it's been long enough that exact years elude me.

I was also still developing technology that used 3½" diskettes well into the first decade of the new millennium - though I finally managed to migrate newer systems to CD-R around the end of that decade.