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Comment by kalcode

This isn't like COBOL. Floppy disc were never reliable. They should've been phased out a long time ago

Magnetic degradation, wear from read/write heads, and environmental sensitivity mean disks have a natural expiration date and it's not long. And they are also easy to corrupt from all kinds of magnetic sources around us.

I get other stuff, even DOS like system. Safety critical software/hardware that was battle tested makes sense. Not floppy. Sometime it's just bureaucracy.

parent kalcode 4 days ago

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