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US military will no longer use 8" floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches [View all]
crazytown
Oct 2019
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oh god, gives me bad flashbacks of how unreliable floppy disks were with bad sectors
ansible
Oct 2019
#11
I am refurbishing an old computer of mine that still has a 3 1/2 floppy drive
TheRealNorth
Oct 2019
#28
Off topic, but our desk shares space with our current laptop AND an old Gateway desktop
yonder
Oct 2019
#19