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Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nonsense. Plenty of American businesses still rely on them too.

I still use floppy disks from time to time. There are several USB floppy drives in my shop at work for when the network has issues and we have problems posting G Code to our mills.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on this American businesses requiring floppy disks?

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

"Required" might not be the right word, but here's an article about how the San Fransico Trains are updated via floppies - https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-muni-trains-floppy-disks/

In the US at least it's not about required, but more legacy support. There are still a lot of old systems that work, but use old technology.