FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control

Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by alex_suzuki on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:29AM (#50393525)

> replacing outdated floppy disks that contain vital weather and other critical information with a streamlined, 21st-century system

What does this even… mean?

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by philipwhiuk on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:39AM (#50393673)

https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2026-04/M...

https://sysatl.com/ids4/

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by alex_suzuki on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:57AM (#50393988)

Twin towers spotted

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by js2 on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:27AM (#50394500)

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by js2 on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:37AM (#50394661)

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by whynotmaybe on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:44AM (#50393754)

Micro-services with docker running out of a kubernetes compliant blockchain with somewhere some "AI" added in the mix. I guess this news is more for PR than anything else because I don't see how the replacement of 69% of copper wire is meaningful in any way. What copper wires? Where? Is it because you removed landlines and replaced with voip?

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by greenavocado on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:47AM (#50393822)

Probably something something fiber optic

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by mmmlinux on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:32AM (#50394583)

zip disks.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by ProllyInfamous on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:21PM (#50395328)

That ungoldly click of death...

¡much confidence. fly yes!

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by boguscoder on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:05PM (#50395072)

Going to 5” floppies, must have more space /s

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by inquist on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:46AM (#50404999)

Memory spheres

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