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		XorNot 77 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic ... CD and DVD can fill this role though. It's a damn shame optical media progress cranked down like it did.

trollbridge 77 days ago | [–]

Rewriteable or write once optical media has a rather poor service life… worse than high quality floppies.

trinix912 77 days ago | [–]

Wouldn't it be quite wasteful to constantly have to burn CDs for that?

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