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53 sats \ 26 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul 2024
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 2024
Yes, its a pretty foolproof way of using and moving data.
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23 sats \ 24 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul 2024
Magnetic storage is bad at storing data long term.
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10 sats \ 22 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul 2024
Hence why you make a copy.
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71 sats \ 6 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul 2024
Have to say, floppy disks are hard to hack.
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46 sats \ 5 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul 2024
How exactly it's harder than any other removable media?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul 2024
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 2024
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 2024
Point made.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 16 Jul 2024
https://m.stacker.news/39952
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul 2024
Right! Had forgotten about this feature. Compact tapes has similar thing.
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @GhostofTruth 16 Jul 2024
but hopefully they still use the fax machine, right?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 17 Jul 2024
I wonder what are they using now? Something more secure than floppys?
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