don't copy that floppy!
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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I still use floppies. They may be gone, but people still use them.
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.
So does Chuck e Cheese, or did recently?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-floppy-disks
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124441151/some-industries-still-use-floppy-disks-this-is-one-of-the-only-places-to-buy-the
For what, if I may ask?
I have a floppy case that I keep my old PS 1+2 and GC memory cards in, but that’s about as much use as I’ve got for the whole thing at this point, so I’m super curious.