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Your Floppy, LS-120, or Other Legacy Media Won’t Work With New Motherboard

by seasoned_geek0

Despite what kids today and motherboard designers wish to believe, floppy disks and LS-120 drives are still in use. Many Cessna and other plane models have floppy drives built into them for log extracts and updates. Not just little planes either. You don’t replace a multi-million dollar jet or a $30+K test system just because someone thinks floppy disks are obsolete. In order for these things to load from a disk, you must first put … Your Floppy, LS-120, or Other Legacy Media Won’t Work With New MotherboardRead more

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The Problem With Thumb Drives

by seasoned_geek

I’m writing this while formatting floppies.  No, this isn’t something I wrote in the 80s and reposted.  It’s January and time to put a bunch of stuff which has been accumulating in my office up for sale.  Most will probably end up on eBay.  The stuff I don’t want to ship will either go straight to recycling or I will have to finally take a look at Craig’s List.  I imagine some of the really … The Problem With Thumb DrivesRead more