Interview with the last man standing in the floppy disk business

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: Interview with the last man standing in the floppy disk business | Boing Boing

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[cannibalpeas]

@frauenfelder

We carry all the different flavors

This guy is really into floppy disks.

[anon39825073]

Good news if you’re one of the ~30 people who have one of these…

[kpkpkp]

Floppy Disk guy needs to meet up with Incandescent Bulb guy and throw an 80’s party

[Evylla]

I have a couple hundred 5.25”s in a closet, plus a handful of 8” ones as well. I always planned on doing some sort of art project with them, but haven’t gotten to it.

[dpease]

reboing

and I still haven’t sent my 3.5" stash to JWZ yet.

[Otherbrother]

@frauenfelder

“We carry all the different flavors: 3.5-inch, 5.25-inch, 8-inch, and some rather rare diskettes.”

A few years back John Oliver did a segment on America’s outdated nuclear weapons systems, and went on a rant about how we’re still using big old obsolete floppy disks to control them. I have to say, this is one of the few subjects where I strongly disagree with him. It seems way less likely that such an antiquated system could be hacked than something more modern where sticking a compromised USB stick into the wrong port could load up all kinds if malware. Or even worse, if the system was actually connected to an online network.

John Oliver: Why do floppy disks control nuclear weapons?

[FGD135]

This thing is fucking amazing.

[FGD135]