Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places https://zdnet.com/article/where-are-floppy-disks-today-planes-trains-and-all-these-other-places/ by @sjvn
Floppy disks live!
@danalan there’s a drawbridge over by the University of Washington that runs on 3.5” disks even today. Why? Because tech debt, neglect, and greed. Same as it ever was.
@danalan @MookyTroubadour When I worked at NASA in the 1980s, I oversaw all Shuttle communications lines. One of our connections was a 50s Telex line to Bermuda. I have no problem believing some Shuttle engineer needed that drive.
@MookyTroubadour
In 2003 I got into a bidding war with NASA over an 8" floppy drive. I needed it for an obsolete Nuclear Medicine image printer a particular radiologist just "had to have" (spoiler - he didn't).
NASA, however needed it because it was a critical component of the Space Shuttle.
8" Floppy. 2003. NASA Critical component.
SMH. 🤔