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Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if they've gone for minidisk

[–] UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Zip drives lol

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Blu-rays. They really don't like rewritable removable storage for some reason.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

bougie, they go with regular cds.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Too cheap, how is a sales contractor going to price gouge the government with those?

[–] UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Exactly why i joked zip disks. Proprietary, ancient, 100mb, and near impossible to find. Sounds perfect for the government. The markup would be incredible.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

it will be on CDs.