Originally published at: Interview with the last man standing in the floppy disk business | Boing Boing
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This guy is really into floppy disks.
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Good news if you’re one of the ~30 people who have one of these…
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Floppy Disk guy needs to meet up with Incandescent Bulb guy and throw an 80’s party
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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.
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and I still haven’t sent my 3.5" stash to JWZ yet.
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A few years back John Oliver did a segment on America’s outdated nuclear weapons systems, and went on a rant about how we’re still using big old obsolete floppy disks to control them.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.
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This thing is fucking amazing.
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