28 Apr
2014
28 Apr
'14
3:10 p.m.
On Apr 28, 2014, at 14:56 , Thomas Dzubin <dzubint at vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
The American TV Show "60 minutes" showed
8-inch floppies are still
being used by the military
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/60-minutes-shocked-to…
To a certain extent, I'm a fan of "if it works, don't fix it". However,
with aging hardware using consumables that are no longer in production such as 8"
floppy disks, there's risk in using the old hardware.
As silly as it seems to keep on using 8" floppies in mission-critical hardware in
2014, if some company resumed manufacturing old floppy disks for .mil and was willing to
also sell to us collectors, I'd be happy to stock up if the pricing wasn't too
insane.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/