• bfg9k@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Older Boeing’s use floppies to update their flight computer data even today

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          10 months ago

          That’s weird, I’ve always thought of floppies as pretty durable. The 3.5" ones anyway; the older larger ones were flimsier. On the 3.5" ones the little metal cover would get bent sometimes, or occasionally crushed if someone put one in a back pocket and forgot before they sat down; but in my career I’ve had a lot more thumbdrives broken off in the port than bent/crushed floppies. How did you find most of yours broke? Maybe I had an abundance of clumsy colleagues… or maybe I joined the IT workforce too late to have witnessed the tsunami of broken floppies!

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            10 months ago

            Thumbdrives broken off in the port?? That’s some degenerate levels of sexual frustration coming to light, brother…