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minus-squareWogi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoNonsense. Plenty of American businesses still rely on them too. I still use floppy disks from time to time. There are several USB floppy drives in my shop at work for when the network has issues and we have problems posting G Code to our mills.
minus-squarepastermil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoCan you elaborate on this American businesses requiring floppy disks?
minus-squarejacksilver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months ago“Required” might not be the right word, but here’s an article about how the San Fransico Trains are updated via floppies - https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-muni-trains-floppy-disks/ In the US at least it’s not about required, but more legacy support. There are still a lot of old systems that work, but use old technology.
Nonsense. Plenty of American businesses still rely on them too.
I still use floppy disks from time to time. There are several USB floppy drives in my shop at work for when the network has issues and we have problems posting G Code to our mills.
Can you elaborate on this American businesses requiring floppy disks?
“Required” might not be the right word, but here’s an article about how the San Fransico Trains are updated via floppies - https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-muni-trains-floppy-disks/
In the US at least it’s not about required, but more legacy support. There are still a lot of old systems that work, but use old technology.