vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoUS air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy diskswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square53linkfedilinkarrow-up1281arrow-down17
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minus-squareFrenchgeek@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours 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…
minus-squareFordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·7 hours agoYou need a computer to do a thing, ALL you want is the command prompt and thing doing.exe Can’t hack a floppy disk remotely, it’s the OG air gap
minus-squareShadisica@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 hours agoActually, I’m pretty sure the air gap is the OG air gap.
I’m sorry, what?
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…
You need a computer to do a thing, ALL you want is the command prompt and thing doing.exe
Can’t hack a floppy disk remotely, it’s the OG air gap
Actually, I’m pretty sure the air gap is the OG air gap.