FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control

Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by xp84 on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:37PM (#50400438)

You put it so much better than I could have. It's as though software bloat is just destined to run slightly higher than Moore's Law. A Mac SE/30 with a spinning hard drive, a PowerBook G4 (also with a HDD), a 7th Gen Intel PC, an M1 Mac. All of them can open a basic app like Calendar in... 3-5 seconds. Even with nothing else running. Yet each one in that list is orders of magnitude more powerful than the previous by every measure.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by inquist on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:37AM (#50404915)

s/destined/designed

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by luckman212 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:09PM (#50408087)

The best part? (to continue with the calendar example)... It's still basically a nightmare trying to make calendars behave the way you want/expect once you've got more than a couple. Most people give up and have some cobbled-together mess, some duplicates, some with broken sync, events in the wrong timezone, invites to recurring meetings from 2 jobs ago that can't be deleted, etc.

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