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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (japantoday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

rumor has it some or all of the united states nuclear arsenal is run off of floppy disks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It was not rumor.

They retired them in 2019.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I can't remember where, but I think I've seen that spun as a security benefit (probably facetiously). Simply because few people can access floppies anymore, especially 5 1/4". And there's probably like 20 people with 8 inch floppy drives.

Edit: oops... There is literally a comment in this thread saying the very same.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Buy a floppy drive off ebay == end up on a watchlist