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Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks
- steelbrain 6y agoI am confused, is this piece making fun of Floppy disks or just documenting a fact? If it's the former, I'd discourage the criticism because Floppy disks are working, and there's no good reason to redo the whole thing and potentially create a lot of bugs, that you'll then spend a wormhole amount of money fixing. Change for the sake of change is a bad idea. Especially for equipment that has to be ultra-reliable.
- hedberg10 6y agoNeurotic journalists who don't build anything ever, much less sell it. "OMG, this still runs on COBOL? haha" Yes.
- anfilt 6y agoMy thoughts.
- londons_explore 6y ago> Floppy disks are working But are they? How many hours have very expensive machines been grounded because the disk drive got misaligned and said "Disk Read error in drive A:. Abort, Retry, Fail?"
- d_silin 6y agoFYI the 28-day update is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautical_Information_Publication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautical_Information_Publi...
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoFloppy Disks seem like a type of security practice. Nobody can install ransomware (or anything else) on your plane if the devices are barely even manufactured anymore.
- m463 6y agoalthough they talk about the 747-400, it's notable that the 747 came out in 1968.
- atat7024 6y agoWorst of all worlds!
- jraph 6y agoHaven't floppy disks stopped being manufactured? How is this handled?
- bierjunge 6y agoA lot of organizations bought everything they could get a few years ago (especially airlines and U.S. military were buying like crazy and paying incredible prices). Now they have basically tons of floppy's stuffed in some warehouses around the world and it should last for a decade or even longer. This should be enough time to get a different medium chosen and certified.