The US nuclear arsenal still runs on floppy disks.
EDIT: The Air Force claimed they finished a migration from 8-inch floppy disks to solid state storage in June 2019, so my info is slightly out of date. They did use floppy disks for over 50 years though (1968-2019).
The thing with random internet replies: you never know if it's true (you could look it up, but that would make life to easy).
So this is or:
Probably there are some other options but I'll go for a combination of the first and second one and hoping for the third
Doing a bit of research online, my info is slightly out of date. They used floppy disks from 1968 to 2019. In 2019, they migrated from the old 8 inch floppy to "highly secure solid-state storage". They don't specify what type of solid state storage they actually use now though.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
"Highly secure solid-state storage"
Probably used the same encryption scheme on an SD card adapter that plugs directly into the floppy drive lol.
It was true at one point, but has since changed. The systems are totally air-gapped and worked 100% of the time, so there was never a reason to change them.
Also true: Boeing still uses floppies to update their 747s.
It's not the disks it's what's ON the disks
Supposedly on the disks. The files were saved, but did the FAT table eat itself was the question. 😂
FAT table eat itself
heh
And they always act as if there's no way it could have been copied and exist somewhere else.
An embarrassing snapshot of spongebob at the Christmas party?
I remember when floppies where called floppy because they were huge and floppy (that's what she said). Before the hard shell smaller floppies became a thing.
The disk part was still floppy.
Still, hard floppys was really easy to damage - fart near it, and it's unreadable
My favorite thing was messing with the metal slider until it broke.
Fidge spinners of their time
It was that or ballpoint pens. Good thing we still have the latter since even fidget spinners seem to have disappeared
I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.
In the late years, I've seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.
They weren’t that bad. Hell AOL mailed millions of those damn things in envelopes and they usually worked.
The most important 1.44 MB you can imagine.
what are all these old memes doing with save icons? /s
SAVING THE WORLD
My first porn was on floppy disk
My first porn was probably NNTP (newsgroups) before I even had the actual WWW. Had to learn how to stitch images together from multiple posts in the early-mid '90s.
Shredder had a zip disk
He would
Who said they still cant?
They can, actually... Many nuclear bases in the US use floppy disks for code to reduce the risk of a cyberattack and because upgrading that intricate of a system is prohibitively expensive for how little good it would do.
Well considering most code is under a megabyte it makes sense
Nowadays it's microSD cards.
I mean, microSD makes for much more interesting drama. You can hide it in the lining of a suit, sew it underneath the skin, hide it in a ball point pen, in your pet. MicroSd drama is much more sneaky.
I remember when movies/games first started using UBS sticks to contain important plot-macguffin data, it seemed very high-tech and expensive. Of course, now high-capacity sticks are incredibly cheap so anyone can have a whole drawer of them.
I liked when they used minidisks. It looked high tech and you could toss it around, unlike a cd. And it was bigger than a usb stick, so it was a better plot device.
Remember a Decepticon that transformed into a cassette?
Poor Soundwave, he and his minions are obsolete! Maybe they can get upgrades so he transforms into an MP3 player and they transform into SD cards.
A simple command line in AutoGPT can be enough, as proven with ChaosGPT. But I am more afraid of human stupidity than of AI, it is this that is going to destroy us.
Shredder and Usagi seem to be holding Zip discs rather than floppy discs. I have no idea what Ripster is holding.
In fact, Lexington seems to be the only one with a floppy disc here
Yeah that was the episode where shredder had some software that could create holographic clones of people. But Bebop and Rocksteady fucked up and caused the machine to make Shredder behave like Michaelangelo.
Climate change increased drastically since the era of floppy disks, coincidence!?
It's a goober
They are truly iconic.
