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

“We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades.”

      • Pistcow@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        7 months ago

        CDs were released in 1982 and pretty damn stable. One year after 3.5 floppys…6 years after 5.25 floppys.

        • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          7 months ago

          ISO 9660 wasn’t around until '88, and even then, its read-only capability paired with high costs wouldn’t make it viable until maybe a decade later … ironically, around the time the system was deployed.

          • Pistcow@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            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.worldEnglish
              3·
              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.