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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by dhosek on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:47AM (#24109823)
When 3.5" floppies (stiffies) were introduced, the big selling points were that (a) they could fit in a shirt pocket and (2) you could toss them across the room and they'd still work.

At my first job, I kept a 5¼" floppy with "only copy of important data" written on the label hanging off my filing cabinet with a magnet.

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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by raxxorrax on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:51AM (#24109870)
They were before my time, but I had an old drive I "examined" (destroyed) as a kid. It was unclear to me how such a large thing could hold so little memory.
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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by dhosek on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:50AM (#24110564)
Your younger self would have been fascinated by these: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_335...
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