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53 sats \ 26 replies \ @TNStacker 16 Jul \ on: German Navy warships finally ditch floppy disks after 30 years tech
USAF still used floppies in nuclear missile silos until 10 years ago.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/10/17/the-us-nuclear-forces-dr-strangelove-era-messaging-system-finally-got-rid-of-its-floppy-disks/#:~:text=OFFUTT%20AIR%20FORCE%20BASE%2C%20Neb,But%20no%20more.
Yes, its a pretty foolproof way of using and moving data.
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Magnetic storage is bad at storing data long term.
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That must be why the U.S. and German military used it for half a century and three decades, huh?
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Pretty sure they create new copies and test from time to time to mitigate this. When it was introduced, it was state of the art tech. But technically some optical storage would be better.
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Show me a medium where this is not true for some duration?
Also, of course there is better. But you said this was BAD. Language is important.
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Factory produced CDs (not CD-Rs). I have music CDs produced in 1980s that still work without any issues.
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Also, I recall lots of damaged, scratched, unreadable CD-Rs.
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CD-Rs are different, they will become unreadable in some 5-10 years without even using them. That's why I said "factory produced CDs (not CD-Rs)". Of course, scratching will destroy them too, just don't do it.
Again, no one said there isn't better. One can argue that something is better without the other thing being bad. But I guess not to some people.
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