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Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Every modern OS still supports it (excluding android, iOS and other toy OSes) and drives are still produced at scale.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well I should buy one then. I have a bunch of old floppies. Wonder if I can still buy an 5-in

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Shopped for an 8" several years ago on eBay. $200 was too rich for my blood, just to play around. Looks like 5 1/4" is still cheap enough, but you won't know if it works until you install. Doesn't look like anyone is guaranteeing.