LOL! The 5 (5.25?) or 3.5 inch floppies? Where did find the disk drives if one failed?
They have now upgraded to zip drives.
I bought one, experienced glitches and errors, and never used them again.
If it’s still using floppies in 2026, there’s likely a damn good reason. Nobody is keeping around something vulnerable to antiCMOS.b for no reason.
It is intentional. It solves a problem. And we’re going to regret this fuckery.
Failure rates and avenues that are predictable and can be operationally regulated around. That’s a form of reliability that they want in that system. That’s it. Plus it costs money to update things like that.
This is at least as disturbing as it is reassuring.
Be more disturbed that the Minuteman III missiles, one leg of the nuclear triad, rely on the big 8 inch floppies in their launch control systems.
The replacement missiles will not enter service until the “early 2030s.”
FAA information display systems to be floppy-free at 435 sites by end of 2028.
not so fast!
Uh.
Wut.
Neat. Can I have the old ones? It’ll go well with my water modeling software from the 80s that I got from an old company trashing their old stuff.
