The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block

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The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block
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Older Boeing's use floppies to update their flight computer data even today

if it aint broke dont fix it. That door plug on the other hand

I remember using floppies and they broke a lot. Probably more than USB drives

That's weird, I've always thought of floppies as pretty durable. The 3.5" ones anyway; the older larger ones were flimsier. On the 3.5" ones the little metal cover would get bent sometimes, or occasionally crushed if someone put one in a back pocket and forgot before they sat down; but in my career I've had a lot more thumbdrives broken off in the port than bent/crushed floppies. How did you find most of yours broke? Maybe I had an abundance of clumsy colleagues... or maybe I joined the IT workforce too late to have witnessed the tsunami of broken floppies!

Thumbdrives broken off in the port?? That's some degenerate levels of sexual frustration coming to light, brother..

Work in IT as long as I have and if you don't learn not to judge, you at least learn not to bother judging 😋

Preach it, person. Sysadmin here, the job fades you to humanity.

Bent and crushed floppies were less of a problem than simple failures of reading and writing them, which in my memory happened much more often than they do to USB drives now. I don't see people breaking usb sticks in half that often either.