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Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

by codex_irl on 4/19/21, 10:32 PM with 13 comments

  • by steelbrain on 4/20/21, 12:41 AM

    I am confused, is this piece making fun of Floppy disks or just documenting a fact?

    If it's the former, I'd discourage the criticism because Floppy disks are working, and there's no good reason to redo the whole thing and potentially create a lot of bugs, that you'll then spend a wormhole amount of money fixing.

    Change for the sake of change is a bad idea. Especially for equipment that has to be ultra-reliable.

  • by d_silin on 4/20/21, 1:24 AM

  • by HDMI_Cable on 4/20/21, 1:30 AM

    Floppy Disks seem like a type of security practice. Nobody can install ransomware (or anything else) on your plane if the devices are barely even manufactured anymore.

  • by jraph on 4/20/21, 6:40 AM

    Haven't floppy disks stopped being manufactured? How is this handled?

  • by m463 on 4/20/21, 3:37 AM

    although they talk about the 747-400, it's notable that the 747 came out in 1968.

  • by atat7024 on 4/20/21, 4:28 AM

    Worst of all worlds!