I don’t get why whenever there is a post about floppies someone says they are unreliable. Sure, any instance where your software is divided among several physical items is going to suffer from the fact that a failure in any one of them leaves your software unusable. “As anyone familiar with the reliability of floppy media knows, it only takes one bad disk to ruin everything.” Posted in Misc Hacks Tagged 747, flight, floppy disk Post navigation It turns out you can even fit an entire podcast on one, too! We’ve also seen floppies used as an even more inefficient method of data entry. Certifying new hardware for flight is a major cost that is difficult to justify when the current system still works.įloppies continue to cling to relevance, even if for most of us it’s simply as the save icon. While retrofits are possible, it’s more likely that airlines will simply stick with the technology until the legacy airplanes are retired. As anyone familiar with the reliability of floppy media knows, it only takes one bad disk to ruin everything. As Aviation Today covered in 2014, legacy aircraft often require updates involving up to eight floppy disks, leading to slow updates that can cause flight delays. Engineers responsible for loading updates must perform the process manually on the ground.Įfforts have been made in some areas to replace the disks with more modern technology. The floppy disks are used to load navigational databases which need to be updated regularly, every 28 days.
The news comes from the work of Pen Test Partners, who recently inspected a 747 being retired as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. As it turns out, though, there is still hardware that relies on floppies – namely, the Boeing 747-400, as The Register reports. Slow, limited in storage and easily corrupted, few yearn for the format to return, even if there is some lingering nostalgia for the disks. For garden variety daily computing tasks, the floppy disk has thankfully been a thing of the past for quite some time.
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