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Wouldn't it be interesting if the floppy disks lost were 2.88MB and also only commonly readable in japan, where that rare format of drive was very slightly more
by walrus01 5y ago
Wouldn't it be interesting if the floppy disks lost were 2.88MB and also only commonly readable in japan, where that rare format of drive was very slightly more popular in the mid 1990s.
- rzzzt 5y agoMaybe HiFD or SuperDisk, Iomega something-or-the-other...
- tssva 5y agoI remember in the mid-90s a customer had just prior to my contract with them starting deployed some 3COM enterprise core routers. They were having issues with connectivity to their Banyan Vines servers which I tracked down to an issue with the routers. 3COM had a bug fix but the routers required the use of 2.88MB floppies to upgrade them. Neither the customer or I had a 2.88MB floppy drive to write the upgrade to. It took 2 full days of searching to find anyone who could get me one in less than a month.
- hereforphone 5y agoI heard they were superfamicom cartridges
- jle17 5y agoI think you mean famicom. Unless I'm mistaken, the famicom and the 64 had floppy drives add-ons (FDS and 64DD), but I don't think the super famicom did. Unless you're speaking of 3rd party tools like those used to copy games, but afaik they use standard floppies.
- spicybright 5y agoI know it's security by obscurity, but this would secure the data a very decent amount lol
- scoopertrooper 5y agoNot quite obscurity given the attackers could measure the disk and do a quick Yahoo search. Maybe, security by antiquity?
- iszomer 5y agoBoth. There was an episode in the second `gig` of GITS anime that showcased this model to secure a character's secret ledger before hackers fried his brain. For a brief period, I kept a copy of my /etc/passwd and keyfiles on a HiMD disk with an RH1.
- tandymodel100 5y agoI’m curious now because I don’t recall the episode - what was the episode title?
- iszomer 5y agoFabricate Fog
- chrisstanchak 5y agoDon't worry they were Bernoulli disks