vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoUS air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy diskswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square68linkfedilinkarrow-up1368arrow-down19
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minus-squareFrenchgeek@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 days agoApparently they believe an unreliable storage medium that hasn’t been manufactured in more than twenty years may not be trustworthy enough for a life critical system anymore. That, or finding “new” floppies is more expensive than making the switch…
Apparently they believe an unreliable storage medium that hasn’t been manufactured in more than twenty years may not be trustworthy enough for a life critical system anymore. That, or finding “new” floppies is more expensive than making the switch…