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Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks

bbc.com
submitted
a year ago
byjosephtotechnology
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4 Comments

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joesch
a year ago
I get loving old school tech, but storage is not one of them
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theonesource
a year ago
The reliability of floppy disks was horrible! How would you solve for the decay that happens with age?
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kaiserseahorse
a year ago
Decay, 1.44MB size, no real error checking. I would not trust anything music related to them so this just strikes me as bizarre.
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theonesource
a year ago
I kind of missed this was a bunch of "audiophile" people lol There's nothing beneficial about the data on a floppy for music