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>>55977004
Can anyone tell me why there was literal toilet paper inside of floppy disks? Was it just to wipe the dust off?

I used to take broken ones apart for fun when I was a kid.

>>55977068
Collects paticals that may end up on the magnetic film layer, and also lets it glide internally without it being damaged by plastic edges.

>>55977068
to reduce friction when spinning

>>55977068
That's not literal toilet paper, idiot.

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>>55977414

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>there are people alive today who have never used removable physical media and never will

>>55977004
>the military is mentally stuck in the past
And the sky is blue.

Floppy disks are garbage. I remember using them in the early 90's and they're ridiculously unreliable. Their reliability heavily depends on storage conditions. If you don't keep them at room temp with low humidity, they die.

USB flash storage is one of the best things to happen to storage media in the past 30 years.

>>55977513
i gotta say i dont wish transferring data to an iomega jaz over parallel port on anyone

>>55978052
floppy disk from the 70-80s > floppy disk from the 90s

By the 90s the floppy disk was on it's way out so most manufacturers were competing on cost and trying to cut corners to say a penny. I have some floppy disk for my commodore made in the early 80s and they still work fine compared to floppy disk I had from the late 90s that died in 2 years.

If the military are using floppies from the golden era then there's nothing to worry about. They probably should move to a sd card to floppy adapter though

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>A:
>CLACK
>FFFFFFFFFFFFFF
>copy awesomenewgame.exe C:\Games
>CLACK
>CLACK
>CLACK
>CLACK
>CLACKCLACKCLACKCLACK
>(I)gnore (A)bort (R)etry
>yfw

Retry never worked. :'(

>>55977004
>8-inch
>floppy

Oooh! So close, yet so useless.

>>55978052
USB anything is hot garbage though.

>>55977004
>why they are still used: it just werks (tm)
US military confirmed /g/entoomen?

>>55979836
>awesomenewgame.exe
>not lostboy
There's your problem

I wish floppy disks were still more common.

>>55977004
Don't fix it til it breaks