Floppy disks at 2021?!

[Steve Litt]

said on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:13:54 +0200

>Until this thread I didn't even know there was such a thing as 8"
>diskettes. My first computer was an Apple IIe with 5.25" diskettes
>(from 1983). I used 3.5" diskettes too and disk on key but today I
>hardly use even disk on keys, although I used one last week after more
>than a year of not using it. And of course CDs I don't use any more.
>My parents have stories of using punched cards when studying in the
>Technion (around 1970). But I still use hard disks, and I assume that
>everything we use today will be obsolete in the next 50 years or so.

And this is one of the greatest challenges to long term backup and
archiving.

SteveT

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