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Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah! The little plastic slider you moved up and down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On commerical disks those are fixed on the frame (but can be flexed/cut away of course)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...and they only protect the data on the disk from being changed, you can still copy it. Otherwise the disk would be unreadable.