Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-22 years agoanti-piracy magazine ad from 1993lemmy.mlimagemessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1587arrow-down110file-text
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minus-squarerm_dash_r_star@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoAnd I thought I was a holdout, didn’t remove the floppy drives from my home built desktop computers until like 2005.
minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 years agoGovernment still uses them in sensitive situations “for security” (and not having to beg for funding only to risk the upgrade failing and taking down some secret, billion-dollar operation) too.
minus-squareArthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agohttps://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124441151/some-industries-still-use-floppy-disks-this-is-one-of-the-only-places-to-buy-the
minus-squaresweBers@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoSo does Chuck e Cheese, or did recently? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-floppy-disks
And I thought I was a holdout, didn’t remove the floppy drives from my home built desktop computers until like 2005.
Government still uses them in sensitive situations “for security” (and not having to beg for funding only to risk the upgrade failing and taking down some secret, billion-dollar operation) too.
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124441151/some-industries-still-use-floppy-disks-this-is-one-of-the-only-places-to-buy-the
So does Chuck e Cheese, or did recently?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-floppy-disks