{"id":12504,"date":"2015-10-11T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T01:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12504"},"modified":"2015-10-11T21:16:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T01:16:37","slug":"why-the-floppy-disk-is-still-used-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/why-the-floppy-disk-is-still-used-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Floppy Disk Is Still Used Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/why-do-floppy-disks-still-exist-the-world-isnt-ready-to-move-on\/\">Brad Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/why-do-floppy-disks-still-exist-the-world-isnt-ready-to-move-on\/\">\n<p>But while the average user might not have any cause to use a floppy disk, there are those out there who can&rsquo;t settle for anything else. They&rsquo;re in dire need of the disks, which most manufacturers have stopped producing. The floppy disk might seem like something better left in the 1990s. Instead it&rsquo;s a product that&rsquo;s alive and well in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are people who love floppy disks,&rdquo; he tells me, giving the example of a court reporter who uses the format for sheer convenience and force of habit. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a large embroidery company that does 500 jobs a day,&rdquo; he goes on. &ldquo;They could do that on a hard drive &mdash; except their machinery doesn&rsquo;t work with a hard drive.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the biggest reason that floppy disks are still in demand in some corners of industry. &ldquo;In the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of industrial machines were built around floppy disks, which were high-tech of the time,&rdquo; he tells me. &ldquo;They were built to last fifty years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a broadcast of 60 Minutes surprised many viewers with the discovery that 8-inch floppy disks were still the preferred method of removable storage for the computers in a U.S. Air Force nuclear silo. That report indicated that changes were in the pipeline, but the security of this outmoded technology was difficult to replicate with modern materials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Jones: But while the average user might not have any cause to use a floppy disk, there are those out there who can&rsquo;t settle for anything else. They&rsquo;re in dire need of the disks, which most manufacturers have stopped producing. The floppy disk might seem like something better left in the 1990s. Instead it&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,295,48,174],"class_list":["post-12504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-history","tag-security","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12505,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}