46 sats \ 5 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul \ parent \ on: German Navy warships finally ditch floppy disks after 30 years tech
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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