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

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

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    8 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·
      8 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·
        8 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.