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US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks (www.theregister.com)

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[–] vext01@feddit.uk 7 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

Floppy disks are not reliable!

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

I grew up with floppy discs. Once we had hard shells on them they were fine. I never had one fail.

Did have some MBR viruses back in the day though.

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