Floppy Disks

[LordShadowWing]

Does anyone still use floppy disks for anything anymore?

[Aytex]

not that I know of

[PlayStation 2]

they died in the 90s

why would someone in 2015 use them besides restoring old ass PCs

[ALwin]

Does anyone still use floppy disks for anything anymore?

 

The US government, at nuclear weapon silos.

[ForsakenLive]

Not that I know of.

[Fulgrim]

Probably the ISS? Government buildings?

[SkilledRebuilds]

You can still get USB>FDD readers.

They have nothing on the almighty Zip-Disk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

[GodSpoon]

Nope, but it makes for great memes

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[soup]

I still have windows 3.1 on seven floppies, and DOS 5 on four.

 

Mind you it has been years since I had a computer that could use them

[Kirky2k15]

So many innuendo opportunities here... must resist... RAM bah

[kgorringe]

i use floppy's they're good for hiding the porns.

 

srsly who goes "i want to see if my son hides porn, lets go look a the old dusty floppy disks in the back!"

[KemoKa]

You can still get USB>FDD readers.

They have nothing on the almighty Zip-Disk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

Who needs zip drives? Bernoulli all the way.

And I have a Ditto drive at home. Hell yeah!

[KemoKa]

i use floppy's they're good for hiding the porns.

 

srsly who goes "i want to see if my son hides porn, lets go look a the old dusty floppy disks in the back!"

AMAZING! you can fit like, ONE high-res photo!

Unless you compress it horribly.

Or unless it's grayscale

[kgorringe]

AMAZING! you can fit like, ONE high-res photo!

Unless you compress it horribly.

Or unless it's grayscale

I can fit like 5 photos per floppy and i have like a stack of floppies

[KemoKa]

You could store it in a RAR file on the floppy, but you would need to find the most optimized dictionary size plus or use ugly jpeg with the rar.

This is why Zip and Bernoulli. 100MB and 230MB. Instead of 1.44. And they're even more obscure than floppy so your... material... will never be found!

I wonder how long it would take to read and load a single file that takes up an entire floppy?

[sandboarder08]

I still have several floppies to my apple II europlus.

[LordShadowWing]

Seems like I started something interesting..
 

[EmeraldFlame]

Probably the ISS?

 

The ISS would very literally be the least likely place to use floppy disks. Floppy disks have amazingly low data density. When it costs tens of thousands of dollars per ounce to get something to its destination you are going to make sure each ounce is absolutely necessary. Flash drives tend to be the highest density storage per unit of mass so that is what they send stuff up on. They also do have a data connect with earth so some things they just beam up.

[Fulgrim]

The ISS would very literally be the least likely place to use floppy disks. Floppy disks have amazingly low data density. When it costs tens of thousands of dollars per ounce to get something to its destination you are going to make sure each ounce is absolutely necessary. Flash drives tend to be the highest density storage per unit of mass so that is what they send stuff up on. They also do have a data connect with earth so some things they just beam up.

Well they still use IDE hard drives, so it wouldn't surprise me if they did use them.

[Coaxialgamer]

You can still get USB>FDD readers.

They have nothing on the almighty Zip-Disk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

man , i remember the click of death .

That was a thing of nightmares.

[EmeraldFlame]

Well they still use IDE hard drives, so it wouldn't surprise me if they did use them.

That is such an amazingly ignorant statement, I'm guessing you probably weren't alive when the ISS launched and don't really care about space so this will probably be lost on you, but all well.

You realize the ISS had all it's initial systems launched into space in 1998 right? SATA didn't even EXIST until 2003. So of course some of their systems are going to be using IDE drives. I think you would find it surprising how much stuff does use IDE drives, even here on earth, they aren't that old and they still offer more than enough performance for many tasks. Plus tech that gets sent to space has to go through years of stress testing before it can be vetted. The earliest they probably would have been able to send SATA 1 drives into space would have been like 2008-2010, and by that point it wouldn't exactly be smart to do so because then you just increased the amount of spare parts overhead you need which will cost legitimately hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile floppy disk tech was from the 70's and 80's, even assuming a 5-10 year vetting process, it was a far outdated standard that offered extremely low storage densities. At that point in time when the ISS was initially put into place, IDE was pretty much the pinnacle of long term storage media, and once it's in place it would be far to hard to replace every system they have. 

[Fulgrim]

That is such an amazingly ignorant statement, I'm guessing you probably weren't alive when the ISS launched and don't really care about space so this will probably be lost on you, but all well.

You realize the ISS had all it's initial systems launched into space in 1998 right? SATA didn't even EXIST until 2003. So of course some of their systems are going to be using IDE drives. I think you would find it surprising how much stuff does use IDE drives, even here on earth, they aren't that old and they still offer more than enough performance for many tasks. Plus tech that gets sent to space has to go through years of stress testing before it can be vetted. The earliest they probably would have been able to send SATA 1 drives into space would have been like 2008-2010, and by that point it wouldn't exactly be smart to do so because then you just increased the amount of spare parts overhead you need which will cost legitimately hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile floppy disk tech was from the 70's and 80's, even assuming a 5-10 year vetting process, it was a far outdated standard that offered extremely low storage densities. At that point in time when the ISS was initially put into place, IDE was pretty much the pinnacle of long term storage media, and once it's in place it would be far to hard to replace every system they have. 

Why you mad, bro?

 

[Spencer1559]

Does anyone still use floppy disks for anything anymore?

You could use them to put your OS on your PC