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53 sats \ 26 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul
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.
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21 sats \ 25 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul
Yes, its a pretty foolproof way of using and moving data.
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23 sats \ 24 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul
Magnetic storage is bad at storing data long term.
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10 sats \ 22 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul
That must be why the U.S. and German military used it for half a century and three decades, huh?
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13 sats \ 21 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul
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.
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0 sats \ 20 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul
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.
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul
Jazz drives were self contained.
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14 sats \ 18 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul
Factory produced CDs (not CD-Rs). I have music CDs produced in 1980s that still work without any issues.
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20 sats \ 14 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul
Also, I recall lots of damaged, scratched, unreadable CD-Rs.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul
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.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul
Hence why you make a copy.
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71 sats \ 6 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul
Have to say, floppy disks are hard to hack.
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46 sats \ 5 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul
How exactly it's harder than any other removable media?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul
When was the last time you personally used a floppy disk drive?
Do you even know how to manually unlock it?
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13 sats \ 3 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul
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"?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul
Point made.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 16 Jul
https://m.stacker.news/39952
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul
Right! Had forgotten about this feature. Compact tapes has similar thing.
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 16 Jul
but hopefully they still use the fax machine, right?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 17 Jul
I wonder what are they using now? Something more secure than floppys?
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