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more questions than answers, I love how the article provides no information on why floppy disks were being used as if it occurred in 1995.
by vmception 5y ago
more questions than answers, I love how the article provides no information on why floppy disks were being used as if it occurred in 1995.
- spicybright 5y agoThe typical reasons costs a lot to upgrade tech for large organizations, existing supply lines to get the equipment, the pro/cons being well understood at this point, etc. Oh, and of course our good old friend "well we've always done it this way!"
- adolph 5y agoSince the nuke one was filed here I add as a sibling comment that the McLaren F1 no longer needs a particular 1990s Compaq laptop. https://tiremeetsroad.com/2017/12/19/no-mclaren-doesnt-need-a-90s-compaq-laptop-to-work-on-the-f1/ https://tiremeetsroad.com/2017/12/19/no-mclaren-doesnt-need-...
- aww_dang 5y agohttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/10/22/us-nuclear-weapons-command-finally-ditches-8-inch-floppies/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/10/22/us-nuclear-weapo... "US nuclear weapons command finally ditches 8-inch floppies" >And yet, such a computer system ranks as one of the most important in the world – so critical in fact that nobody has wanted to change or upgrade it since it was built nearly half a century ago.
- ricardobayes 5y agodevops will eat me alive for this, but my 2c is if it's critical infra, and if it's working, don't touch it. Sure write a new one in parallel, but don't change or upgrade it.
- evilDagmar 5y agoLuckily for well, everyone, those 8-inch floppies didn't really see a lot of use.
- oblio 5y agoTrue, but on the other hand neither CDs, DVDs nor Blurays are bleeding edge tech these days :-)) I also imagine that we've made at least 10x as many DVDs by now, than all the floppies that were ever made, regardless of the floppy disk size.