Pretty sure they create new copies and test from time to time to mitigate this. When it was introduced, it was state of the art tech. But technically some optical storage would be better.
I have 3,5" FDDs somewhere laying around at home. Some years ago wanted to use them as a basis for small line following robot, as FDD has necessary components (two motors, one normal one for driving and servo one for steering) with very cool low level control interface.
USAF still used floppies in nuclear missile silos until 10 years ago.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/10/17/the-us-nuclear-forces-dr-strangelove-era-messaging-system-finally-got-rid-of-its-floppy-disks/#:~:text=OFFUTT%20AIR%20FORCE%20BASE%2C%20Neb,But%20no%20more.
Yes, its a pretty foolproof way of using and moving data.
Magnetic storage is bad at storing data long term.
That must be why the U.S. and German military used it for half a century and three decades, huh?
Pretty sure they create new copies and test from time to time to mitigate this. When it was introduced, it was state of the art tech. But technically some optical storage would be better.
Show me a medium where this is not true for some duration?
Also, of course there is better. But you said this was BAD. Language is important.
Jazz drives were self contained.
Factory produced CDs (not CD-Rs). I have music CDs produced in 1980s that still work without any issues.
Also, I recall lots of damaged, scratched, unreadable CD-Rs.
Again, no one said there isn't better. One can argue that something is better without the other thing being bad. But I guess not to some people.
Hence why you make a copy.
Have to say, floppy disks are hard to hack.
How exactly it's harder than any other removable media?
When was the last time you personally used a floppy disk drive? Do you even know how to manually unlock it?
I have 3,5" FDDs somewhere laying around at home. Some years ago wanted to use them as a basis for small line following robot, as FDD has necessary components (two motors, one normal one for driving and servo one for steering) with very cool low level control interface.
What do you mean by "manually unlock"?
Point made.
https://m.stacker.news/39952
Right! Had forgotten about this feature. Compact tapes has similar thing.
but hopefully they still use the fax machine, right?
I wonder what are they using now? Something more secure than floppys?