The US nuclear arsenal still runs on floppy disks.
EDIT: The Air Force claimed they finished a migration from 8-inch floppy disks to solid state storage in June 2019, so my info is slightly out of date. They did use floppy disks for over 50 years though (1968-2019).
The thing with random internet replies: you never know if it’s true (you could look it up, but that would make life to easy).
So this is or:
- really scary
- unbelievable smart cause nobody knows how to use them
- not true
Probably there are some other options but I’ll go for a combination of the first and second one and hoping for the third
Doing a bit of research online, my info is slightly out of date. They used floppy disks from 1968 to 2019. In 2019, they migrated from the old 8 inch floppy to “highly secure solid-state storage”. They don’t specify what type of solid state storage they actually use now though.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
3.5" is much more solid than 8" floppies.
Fair point
“Highly secure solid-state storage”
Probably used the same encryption scheme on an SD card adapter that plugs directly into the floppy drive lol.
Like one of those old cassette tapes with a headphone cable when MP3 players first came out and cars didn’t have adapters? Lol
Thanks this makes me feel (a bit) more secure…
It was true at one point, but has since changed. The systems are totally air-gapped and worked 100% of the time, so there was never a reason to change them.
Also true: Boeing still uses floppies to update their 747s.
Yup, we don’t want it to crash.
It boils down to “never change a running system”
Laughs in Linux
It’s not the disks it’s what’s ON the disks
Supposedly on the disks. The files were saved, but did the FAT table eat itself was the question. 😂
FAT table eat itself
heh
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An embarrassing snapshot of spongebob at the Christmas party?
I remember when floppies where called floppy because they were huge and floppy (that’s what she said). Before the hard shell smaller floppies became a thing.
The disk part was still floppy.
Still, hard floppys was really easy to damage - fart near it, and it’s unreadable
My favorite thing was messing with the metal slider until it broke.
Fidge spinners of their time
It was that or ballpoint pens. Good thing we still have the latter since even fidget spinners seem to have disappeared
Shhhck… SNAP. Shhhck… SNAP.
I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.
In the late years, I’ve seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.
They weren’t that bad. Hell AOL mailed millions of those damn things in envelopes and they usually worked.
Had a teacher one time draw a grid on her whiteboard with a space for each student, and she asked us to place our disks with our projects on the board with a magnet (so we wouldn’t lose them). The school had recently gotten rid of the old dusty chalkboard, and was really enamored with her new whiteboard and showing off her fridge magnet collection.
Luckily, someone pointed out why that was a bad idea before anyone did it, and she quickly changed her mind.
Woolsey! We need a stargate community :D
Look it’s the EMH… Err ummm. ❤️❤️❤️
My first porn was on floppy disk
There’s something poetic about using a floppy disk to get hard
My first porn was probably NNTP (newsgroups) before I even had the actual WWW. Had to learn how to stitch images together from multiple posts in the early-mid '90s.
4chan… I rolled the fucking dice and lost I guess.
Forté Agent was a blessing
I thought the name sounded super familiar, but I had to look it up. My dad was into BBS and CompuServ in the '80s. He eventually got AOL, which is where I got started with NNTP. I really need to get his history on these things. I know that, when I was super young in the early '80s when they divorced, he was often spending a lot of time online. I’d really like to know more about that era as my memories are scattered and fractured.
UUE decoding!
I downloaded my first porn from Kazaa, over dial-up.
3.5", 5.25" or the monster 8" is the question…
what are all these old memes doing with save icons? /s
Who said they still cant?
Well considering most code is under a megabyte it makes sense
Nowadays it’s all data crystals.
Stargate did it.
Babylon 5 as well.
I remember when movies/games first started using UBS sticks to contain important plot-macguffin data, it seemed very high-tech and expensive. Of course, now high-capacity sticks are incredibly cheap so anyone can have a whole drawer of them.
I liked when they used minidisks. It looked high tech and you could toss it around, unlike a cd. And it was bigger than a usb stick, so it was a better plot device.
Remember a Decepticon that transformed into a cassette?
Poor Soundwave, he and his minions are obsolete! Maybe they can get upgrades so he transforms into an MP3 player and they transform into SD cards.
There is already an actual flash drive version of Ravage.
Leading to intergalactic war accidentally started by DankPods.
Gotta be at some very specific places to fool people with that in 2023
It’s a goober
Shredder and Usagi seem to be holding Zip discs rather than floppy discs. I have no idea what Ripster is holding.
In fact, Lexington seems to be the only one with a floppy disc here
I was going to guess LS120 (a.k.a. “superdisc”), but that’s not it.
Turns out after some searching that it looks like 3.5" magneto-optical.
I’ve never heard of that format before. These things are neat.
A simple command line in AutoGPT can be enough, as proven with ChaosGPT. But I am more afraid of human stupidity than of AI, it is this that is going to destroy us.
If AI destroys us, it will be a result of human stupidity.
Ameca think the same https://file.coffee/u/J8iIcvtKb070Z5fYiLCjY.mp4
Climate change increased drastically since the era of floppy disks, coincidence!?
