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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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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They make USB peripheral floppy drives now for like $15. Its like the shittiest thumb drive ever.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

I'd bet that they don't have USB ports on their prison computers at all.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fun fact: As of El Capitan from 10-ish years ago, Macs can no longer read floppies. They removed drivers from the kernel so some people upgraded and couldn't read their disks anymore.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, do the USB diskette drives not present as standard Mass Storage block devices??

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I’m afraid that it’s been years so I don’t remember the details.

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

I got for for a 486SX project! They're pretty sweet. push buttons on the front to switch between 99 virtual floppies. I had forgotten just how much you can't do on 3.1, 95 and 98 without a standard floppy drive available.