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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by dam_jackalopes on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:09PM (#50399165)
I was on a school paper in high school and was taking photos on a "digital" camera that wrote to 3.5" floppies. Some of them are still with the (printed) copies of my articles I kept. I'll have to see if they survived.

This is probably my "I'm getting old" moment. Good lord.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by throwaway2037 on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:14PM (#50401283)
Sony Mavica?
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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by dam_jackalopes on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:53AM (#50428169)
I think it was!
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