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

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

  • PistcowEnglish
    71·
    3 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·
      3 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.

      • PistcowEnglish
        6·
        3 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·
          3 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.