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points by wat10000 1 day ago | 0 comments

According to this article, it's far worse than that: eight inch floppy disks! Capacity might be as much as 1.2MB per disk, but probably less. https://simpleflying.com/americas-atc-floppy-disks-12-billio...

[–] SoftTalker 1 day ago

Aha so that answers my question about why they haven't at least switched to USB thumb drives for their sneakernet. These aren't PCs. Probably minicomputers such as a TI-990 or similar. They don't have USB ports.

[–] dboreham 1 day ago

That said the 3.5" drives were actually electrically compatible with the double density 8" SA-800 drives.

[–] myrandomcomment 1 day ago

If anyone wants to see the guts of an 8-inch drive and how complex it is check out this video from Adrian's Digital Basement.

https://youtu.be/hQY0DI7nKaM

[–] newsoftheday 13 hours ago

Can't believe how interesting watching that was, thanks. I learned about GreaseWeazle which I might use one day to backup some of my old copy protected disks.