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[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Flight control operations still use floppy disks to transfer data. Freaky, huh?

 

[tvguy]

Not at all. Some of the best technology is old technology.

 

[team bradfield]

We landed on the moon

 

[Praying Colonel]

July 2024 I was asked to speak with some interns the day before I retired. I'd found a 3.5" floppy disk cleaning out my desk that morning and asked if any of them knew what it was. 0 hands. I asked how many had not been born the day I started work there (April 26, 2000). All the hands. It was a nice reassurance it was time for me to go.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

Younger people only know what a disk looks like because it is the save icon. Wonder when that will change to a "modern" image.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

It is true that old technology can be solid. The lunar lander had less memory than a modern day calculator. Voyager 1, due to surpass 1 light day away from Earth, runs off decades old code, a handful of k memory and either an 8 track disk or a tape player - but she still runs, sending back information to Earth all these decades on. And I don't hide the opinion that my favourite version of Windows remains to this day Windows 3.1