Floppy disks begat smaller floppy disks, which begat hard drives, which begat CD-ROMs.
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It wasn't unusual, for example, to get a box with a dozen floppy disks to install a large program (Microsoft Office 97 came on 55 floppy disks).
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Update complete: U.S. nuclear weapons no longer need floppy disks.
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Floppy disks are dead technology; that's hardly a new revelation.
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Meanwhile, the Washington bureaucracy is still running on floppy disks.
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Tell me about your fascination with floppy disks as an object.
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The tracks on the floppy disks are not super-compressed MP3s.
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Portions of the Pentagon still rely on floppy disks, he charged.
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He was stuck with a box of unsold 3.5-inch floppy disks.
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At least by 1995, everyone had finally moved away from floppy disks.
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Time to dig the floppy disks out – you could make a killing.
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In fact, vital departments of the US government still use floppy disks.
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Computers used outdated technologies, such as floppy disks and archaic operating systems.
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They even have floppy disks and old computer systems, Harding told CNN.
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The floppy disks will be replaced with secure digital cards by 2017.
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But NAFTA was drafted during the era of floppy disks and fax machines.
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Some computers in the missile base command centers still use eight-inch floppy disks.
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"I'm not going to pretend that things like that [floppy disks] don't exist," said Kim.
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According to The Verge, HFS was a storage system originally meant for use with floppy disks.
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I still use floppy disks to save my songs and if it fits, then it works.
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The move away from floppy disks was completed in June but was not widely reported at the time.
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The 8-Bit Guy spends 15 minutes breaking down what makes floppy disks so cool, despite being obsolete.
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How did you go about finding things like floppy disks, pay phones, and the old 1990s Apple computer?
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From floppy disks to dogs, the Game of Thrones theme has been covered in an umpteen number of ways.
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His glyph was sent out on 3.5-inch floppy disks to media organizations so that they could use it.
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Until the rise of CDs, floppy disks were the standard medium for how software was packaged, sold, and installed.
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Customers howled, as the changes rendered many of their existing peripherals — and data they'd saved on floppy disks — obsolete.
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The floppy disks are used as a part of the section's IBM Series/1 computer (a system from the '70s).
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That's because unlike dial-up, floppy disks, or department stores, greeting cards have managed to prevail in the digital age.
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The system is running on a 1970s IBM computing platform, and still uses 8-inch floppy disks to store data.
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The US Defense Department has finally ended the use of 8-inch floppy disks for coordinating the country's nuclear forces.
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But it certainly dangles over a grave full of AOL floppy disks, Blockbuster membership cards, and Hot Hot Heat CDs.
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Their limited storage capacity is laughable by today's standards, but that's not to say floppy disks are completely useless yet.
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The drive, however, proved to be too unreliable compared to the more popular 215-inch floppy disks of the time.
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With approximately 1,000 MB in a GB, you'd need around 694,444 floppy disks to hold all the boosted HBO data.
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Even more shocking, the Department of Defense still uses floppy disks to coordinate the operations behind the nation's nuclear forces.
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Not only are significant amounts being generated, but the technology used to store it keeps becoming obsolete, like floppy disks.
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He recorded improvisations onto floppy disks and used a four-track sequencer to overlay parts and create fuller symphonic compositions.
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The Pentagon is initiating a full replacement and says the floppy disks should be gone by the end of next year.
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For example, the Department of Defense uses 8-inch floppy disks in a legacy system... More troubling is the fact that the old school floppy disks are used as a storage solution for the DoD's Strategic Automated Command and Control System, which "coordinates the operational functions of the United States' nuclear forces," including intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers.
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Update complete: The U.S. nuclear arsenal has moved away from a 1970s-era computer system that relied on eight-inch floppy disks.
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The Defense Department has transitioned away from a 215s-era nuclear command and control system that relied on eight-inch floppy disks.
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But large organizations like government bureaucracies are slow to change — the nation's nuclear forces are finally phasing out floppy disks this year.
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Originally founded 31 years ago, the publisher was the first to include floppy disks with software on the covers of its magazines.
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When the North American Free Trade Agreement was concluded in 1994, floppy disks reigned supreme and the Internet was in its infancy.
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Put your mind at ease: The United States nuclear arsenal has finally been updated so it no longer relies on ancient floppy disks.
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The project was stored on 48 floppy disks, and ended up at 6MB, which for the time was a crushing amount of data.
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Most notably, Yamaha sold a player piano called the Disklavier, which uses DRM-encoded floppy disks and CD-ROMs to manage MIDI files.
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Committee room props insinuated that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to investigate the value of 8-inch floppy disks for critical systems.
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This version unfolds in the 1980s and '90s, during a Soviet age in which the term "distribution" meant delivering floppy disks by hand.
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Elaborate fantasy stories on floppy disks in elementary school, strange looping drawings with disembodied heads and layered eyes, pointillist landscapes imagining an Elsewhere.
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When I was born in 1992, that's when floppy disks seemed high-tech, and when Microsoft Windows 3.1 was latest OS on the market.
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Before we know it, they will belong in the pile of gone but never forgotten tech items like floppy disks, beepers, and Walkmans (RIP).
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Software crackers, programmers, and gaming enthusiasts would gather IRL to swap pirated games, known as warez, which would be copied on to floppy disks.
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Besides finding games on the floppy disks, Pfaff came across saved copies of his high school assignments and a note from his late father.
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In a footnote, the GAO had to define "floppy disk," noting that modern flash drives hold the equivalent storage of 3.2 million floppy disks.
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What's scarier: Facebook's cryptocurrency project or finding out that the United States was using floppy disks to protect its nuclear arsenal up until this year?
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This show includes art made with unorthodox materials (like vinyl records, floppy disks, cardboard) to depict the beauty of everyday life in New York City.
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In the commodity classification that includes blank floppy disks, MiniDiscs and cassettes, over £60m-worth of goods were imported last year, according to our analysis.
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When I was growing up, scouring the mailbox for free floppy disks to reformat for 100-kilobyte PC games was the highlight of my day.
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"The Department of Defense uses 8-inch floppy disks in a legacy system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation's nuclear forces," the report said.
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For more than a half-century, the Air Force command in charge of the US's nuclear arsenal has been using floppy disks to control its system.
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The members of an upper-middle-class New York household share a single desktop computer, with a dot-matrix printer and a slot for floppy disks.
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I used to watch my dad play the original on our beat up old PC. Back then, patches came on floppy disks sent through the mail.
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The U.S. military is still using dated technology such as 8-inch floppy disks at some of its nuclear launch control areas, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.
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One of the alarming discoveries of the modern era is that data storage technologies, from VCR tapes to floppy disks, are becoming obsolete at an increasing clip.
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According to Tom Persky, a floppy disk expert quoted by the NYT, it's surprisingly common to find floppy disks still in old industrial machines and medical devices.
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And we're going to award bonus points to imgur user hahabird and his son for even creating gingerbread floppy disks which can hold more frosting than data.
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Originally released way back in 1978, the Apple Disk II drive could load 5¼-inch floppy disks, which are as ancient as stone tablets at this point.
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It makes an obvious case for using cloud storage, for services in general, but like the move away from floppy disks, or ODDs, change sometimes comes slowly.
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"The energy of music obviously has moved out of a place like this," said Mr. Madell, who admitted that CDs now look "like floppy disks" to him.
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For more than 50 years, the Defense Department has used 8-inch floppy disks to control the operational functions of the United States' nuclear arsenal — until now.
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Smith served as CTO under President Obama, helping to bring the U.S. government — parts of it reportedly still running on floppy disks in 2015 — into the 21st century.
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The U.S. military has come under criticism over the years because of reports it was still using 1970s-era floppy disks on important weapons command or control systems.
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It runs on a 2202s-era computer system and uses 2628-inch floppy disks, which can hold only a fraction of the storage space of modern flash drives.
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"It is no longer necessary to distribute software by sharing floppy disks or to pay with a check in the mail," the association explained in a blog post.
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In the search warrant, agents say they seized eight computers, an assortment of storage drives, three tablets, two flip phones, a computer server, floppy disks and other materials.
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At a young age, Jammz would kill time at home by messing around on Akai drum machines, and use floppy disks to load up samples he could experiment with.
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European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, currently in residence up in, well, space, discovered a treasure trove of floppy disks tucked away in one of the lockers on-board.
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The Pentagon says the nuclear command and control unit will phase out floppy disks by the end of 2017, and that it will fully modernize the system by 2020.
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If you're old enough to remember floppy disks, VHS tapes, and cassettes, then you'll appreciate this tribute to old-school media storage (which is available in 22 different colors).
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Even though floppy disks are now totally obsolete, they live on as the "save" icon on many computer programs — even if young people have no idea what it is.
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Chief among them is that the U.S. Department of Defense still uses 22014-inch floppy disks, a stored media technology retired by most businesses back in the early 1980s.
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While floppy disks were fairly expensive in the eighties and early nineties, the price—along with the quality—had come down tremendously until production ceased in the late 2000s.
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Just like they were a shitty way to store data and get free AOL trials, floppy disks also happen to be a shitty way to open a beer bottle.
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Now you can relive some of that nostalgia with these cute retro tech Lego builds, harking back to the days of floppy disks, CRT monitors, and old video games.
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With the family's blessings, Mr. Lunt began to methodically go through the Korg recordings, stored on 10 digital audiotapes, a handful of digital compact cassettes and 49 floppy disks.
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To select the songs for this performance, she spent hours combing through his tapes, notebooks and floppy disks at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library.
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For decades, the Air Force's Strategic Automated Command and Control System—an internal chat protocol—has relied on 8-inch floppy disks running on an IBM Series/1 computer.
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According to a new report from the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO), at least one part of the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) still uses floppy disks in one of its systems.
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It's interesting to note that, aside from Superman's memory crystals, science fiction didn't really start dipping into the memory crystal game until objects like floppy disks entered the public consciousness.
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Sure, we've seen things like this before and from people other than Zadrożniak, who says himself that making floppy disks do this kind of thing on command is "very simple".
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One document, for instance, discussed ways to quickly copy 3.5-inch floppy disks, a storage device so out of date that few people younger than 35 have probably used one.
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The antiquated system that controls the U.S. nuclear arsenal quietly got a long-awaited update this summer — eliminating the use of eight-inch floppy disks that were roughly 50 years old.
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The antiquated system that controls the U.S. nuclear arsenal quietly got a long-awaited update this summer — eliminating the use of eight-inch floppy disks that are roughly 50 years old.
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Click here to view original GIFNo matter what the size—eight-inch, 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch—floppy disks are the most iconic symbols of old-school computing.
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We know from the chapter's subtitle that Derek Roberts, a "former personal assistant to Ms. Wells," has put her worn handbag, cassette tapes, floppy disks and makeup bag up for sale.
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The Defense Department's system for sending emergency messages to nuclear forces is made up of aging technology that runs on a 1970s-era computer system and uses 85033-inch floppy disks.
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The Defense Department's system for sending emergency messages to nuclear forces is made up of aging technology that runs on a 1970s-era computer system and uses 8-inch floppy disks.
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ASCII porn, back then, moved through early forums called bulletin board systems (BBSes), Telenet, Usenet, and the sneakernet—the term for transferring files around on physical hard drives, CDs and floppy disks.
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In the late 1003s, I studied Radio and Television Arts (a fancy term for broadcasting), at a time when floppy disks were still the most common way to transfer data between computers.
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In the late 90s, I studied Radio and Television Arts (a fancy term for broadcasting), at a time when floppy disks were still the most common way to transfer data between computers.
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The antiquated system that controls the U.S. nuclear arsenal quietly got a long-awaited update this summer — eliminating the use of eight-inch floppy disks that are more than 50 years old.
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He says that he started work on ProDOS out of a sense of nostalgia, and a desire in the community to preserve older programs before the floppy disks they came on degraded.
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Engineers built the computer with an aluminum case to help it remain cool, but the Apple III overheated anyway, sometimes even causing computer chips and floppy disks (remember those?) to melt inside.
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When the law was written, electronic communications were a novelty, data storage came in the form of floppy disks, and the largest personal computer hard drives measured in the tens of megabytes.
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Engineers built the computer with an aluminum case to help it remain cool, but the Apple III overheated anyway, sometimes even causing computer chips and floppy disks (remember those?) to melt inside.
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It was this crazy little machine with a five-inch screen and two floppy disks, had all the software you needed, which included a database, a word processor, a spreadsheet, telecommunications program.
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"Request for backup?" seemed to call for a pun in its punctuation, and I thought of "backups" like floppy disks, understudies, traffic jams … I just got cleverer and cleverer to no avail.
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An artifact from a time when "the world was not wired," according to Tom Persky, who inventories and sells floppy disks at what may be one of the largest such companies left, FloppyDisk.com.
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What they're saying: There were references to AOL, which was famous for bundling its CD-ROMs with everything from magazines to cereal boxes, and jokes about floppy disks, an even older storage technology.
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A May 2016 Government Accountability Office report pointed out that the Air Force is still using 40-year old computers and eight-inch floppy disks to manage certain parts of its nuclear mission.
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His favorite moment during this whole journey was when the deliberately Frog Fractions 2-focused ARG released a video where Crawford is kidnapped by time travelers and drops some floppy disks on the ground.
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The U.S. Defense Department is still using — after several decades — 19903-inch floppy disks in a computer system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation's nuclear forces, a jaw-dropping new report reveals.
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Before Apple introduced the App Store in 2008, companies could distribute third-party apps and web services without oversight; consumers could buy floppy disks, download software from the internet or connect to any website.
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The Defense Department's 1970s-era IBM Series/1 Computer and long-outdated floppy disks handle functions related to intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft, according to the new Government Accountability Office report.
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Pfaff spent the weekend tweeting things he'd found on the device (and the floppy disks he still had), including a letter his late father had written to him in a word processing program in 1986.
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There was a plastic box with a hinged, smoked cover filled with 5.25-inch floppy disks alongside it, each one carefully protected by a waxed paper sleeve and identified with a sharpie-marked white sticker.
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Mr. Trump has expressed a deep concern about the power of nuclear weapons in recent interviews, and argued that the nuclear command and control system was so antiquated that some sites still used floppy disks.
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The new IIP series will cover a new basket of commodities and assign new weights to them, removing obsolete items like typewriters and floppy disks, said G.C. Manna, former head of the Central Statistics Organisation.
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I have around 20193 floppy disks which constantly get erased and rewritten all the time with new tunes I find in the web and these disks are surprisingly stable and durable since many many years!
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The GAO also found the Department of Defense uses 8-inch floppy disks, storage technology invented in 85033 and made obsolete in the 1980s by the 3.5-inch floppy, to maintain the American nuclear missile arsenal.
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But the latter pronunciation just doesn't sound right, it comes across as tech jargon from the '80s, when data was stored on floppy disks and computers crunched numbers on processors that clocked in at 4.77 MHz.
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It came with floppy disks preloaded with a variety of sounds and instruments; and unlike many other available products, the pads were pressure-sensitive and could produce different sounds based on how hard they were pressed.
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The video doesn't just stop with floppy disks themselves, but also gets into the nitty-gritty tech surrounding disk drives and whether it's really that weird that the U.S. military still relies on the decades-old technology.
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The floppy disk may seem like a vintage artifact, but this video reminds us that the United States military actually still uses old floppy disks in some of its "specialized" computers for controlling things like nuclear missiles.
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They had to have an old kind of different old computers that would play the medium, like floppy disks and things like that, which if you think about it, how would you now play a floppy disk?
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So I wrote out the check and became the proud owner of a small, beige box with a tiny, black-and-white screen, a huge mouse, a clunky keyboard, and a ton of floppy disks in plastic sleeves.
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The federal government spends $80 billion a year on information technology, much of it used to maintain outdated technology such as data systems that are decades old and storage that includes floppy disks used at the Defense Department.
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According to Jason Scott, an Internet Archive curator, the emulated version of the game on the site was imaged from the original floppy disks by Andrew Borman, Digital Games Curator at the Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
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I later learned that in 1998 a class action lawsuit was brought against Iomega, but by the time I was done college in 2000, USB flash drives and rewritable CDs had long replaced the need for 100MB floppy disks.
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According to the cybersecurity blog Practically Unhackable, a biologist by the name of Joseph Popp sent close to 20,000 floppy disks to researchers claiming they contained a survey which would help scientists determine a patient's risk for contracting HIV.
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Click here to view original GIFI haven't touched a DVD, CD, or even a Blu-Ray disc in years, let alone one of the floppy disks the Apple Disk II was designed to load back in the early '80s.
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Now, a group of crackers are working together to save every Apple II program possible—there's tens of thousands floating around—before the proper hardware no longer exists or the floppy disks lose their magnetic charge and their data.
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She wore pigtails, a Harley-Davidson T-shirt, a long skirt, Doc Martens and cat-eye makeup as she languidly tried vocal takes on fuzzy old microphones and sourced sound-effect samples from a pile of dusty floppy disks.
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Megan Smith, the current U.S. Chief Technology Officer, told the New York Times in 2015 of the "culture shock" experienced by the tech-savvy Obama campaign when they took control of a White House still dependent on floppy disks and Blackberrys.
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It was not outdated enough to be a collectors' item—it was from like, the 80s and had like 28 tones on it and it took floppy disks—so it's not an artisanal synth or something that somebody would seek out.
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I load the floppy disks into my Amiga computer and playback the files with an incredible piece of software called PT-1210 mk1—an awesome Amiga-exclusive player made by some genius coders from the demoscene called Hoffmann and Akira.
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Yours truly still has floppy disks with digital images and software that were returned with developed Kodak film from 2002, and also owned an excellent Kodak digital camera in 2004 — when Kodak held a leading position in the digital camera industry.
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"There was an area of Tokyo called Akihabara, which is where there were all of these tech companies and these stores where you could go buy endless arrays of parts, and incredibly cheap floppy disks and all sorts of equipment," Millington says.
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Perhaps more than any company out there, Apple is notorious for changing connector types (30-pin to Lightning, anyone?), getting rid of legacy technology whether you're ready or not (floppy disks, DVDs) and encouraging the use of its own connectors (FireWire, Thunderbolt, Lightning).
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If you can remember building your own spec'd-out computer in order to play games like Half-Life or Rogue Squadron, you'll enjoy this nostalgic trip down memory lane that includes antique technologies like the Pentium III processor, floppy disks, and CD-ROM drives.
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"There was always some kid at school who had a floppy disk that they'd nicked off their dad that had stuff on [it], and in France we'd get floppy disks on the front of computer game magazines that had erotic stuff too," Jellica said.
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The system, called Strategic Automated Command and Control System, or SACCS, "is still in use today but no longer uses floppy disks," David Faggard, a spokesman for the Air Force Global Strike Command, which manages the Air Force portion of the arsenal, said in an email.
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This week he's bringing the promise of those tracks to the real world with a show at the New York club Rose Gold (thrown by the party Goonroom) on Saturday, October 27, at which he'll play a set of "acid, electro, and more" totally from floppy disks.
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The report, published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), shows that a command and control unit tasked with coordinating "the operational functions of the nation's nuclear forces" still uses 8-inch floppy disks and runs on an IBM / Series 1 computer — a model that was first produced in 1976.
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"I work a lot with sustainable materials and the art I have created using recycled floppy disks, of my face alongside that of a tiger, is a symbol that modern man, nature, and tiger can live in harmony," he says of his creation for the 3,890 Tigers campaign.
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Rest easy, people of Earth: The United States' nuclear arsenal will no longer rely on a computer system that uses eight-inch floppy disks, in an update the Defense Department has cast as a step into the future but which some observers might be surprised to learn was required at all.
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From floppy disks to unsupported software, government technology can be a blast from the past, and disclosing the technical nature of an attack might reveal information that other hackers could use for new attacks, armed with knowledge of vulnerabilities in the hardware or software still being used for important government functions.
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One of the man born Denis Karimani's ongoing schemes is his tendency to release his music on floppy disks, which is likely a practical challenge for many of his listeners, but falls in line with the spirit of his tunes, which shimmer with the neon warmth of old tech, and nostalgic joy.
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According to the Guardian's Sean O'Hagan, a few years ago, music producer and co-founder of the Numero Group, Tom Lunt, a friend of Eggleston's son, showed an interest in the photographer's recordings and began recovering them off of 49 floppy disks, paring down 60 hours of music into what would become Musik.
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The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it's no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some form or another — just like you used to zip your files back in the days of floppy disks, CD-ROMs and low-bandwidth connections.
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By the end of the 80s and beginning/mid of the 90s there weren't 128 GB USB-Sticks, Blu-Rays or 5 TB HDDs and all we had for saving data were floppy disks with 1,44 MB or even less—hard disks were just too expensive and a new thing called 'CD-ROM' was even more expensive.
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MORE LATER ... CHEERS, WALT (END) SL: BARANGER BY: MODEM ;12/09,11:27 NOTE: SLUG: baranger pro technology/wilner ex baranger/mogadishu judy: situation here is chaotic: a violent rainstorm killed one of our tandy 1500s and schmitt arrived with a tandy 200, which doesn't use floppy disks and doesn't connect to anything except a phone line.
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