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this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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I don't see why degradation of the individual physical floppies is a concern, since they can be imaged and written onto new(er) floppies, or the system retrofitted to read the same data from a different medium, but I can see where a more modern system would provide a lot of advantages. It doesn't really sound like anyone in this article knows the nitty gritty details that well, though the bit about the loop cable is good.
PLEASE do not use wifi to run your trains lmao
They should run them with extension cords instead
Anybody actually making them any more or are they stuck using old stock of veerrryyy questionable reliability?