deeznuts, 2 months ago

@jcphoenix That's a perfectly respectable size for a disk. Folks today have a skewed perspective on how big the average disk is, floppy or otherwise.

jcphoenix, 2 months ago

@deeznuts Size queens. 3.5" diskettes are better. Less floppy, more hard. More volume.

jenbanim, 2 months ago

@jcphoenix when it comes to old tech like this there are two things I've seen

• It's worked since the 80s and is dirt cheap so for the love of God don't try to fix what isn't broken
• It breaks constantly but the only person who understands how the system works refuses to modernize it and has too much institutional power to be overruled

It's really hard to tell the difference from an outside perspective

jcphoenix, 2 months ago

@jenbanim I've definitely seen both. Or maybe similar.

I've seen old, massive commercial printers hooked up to computers from the 00s, running Windows XP (not connected to Internet). Because the printer isn't vendor-supported anymore and there are no modern drivers.

Then back in like 2020, an insurance company that was using a custom MS Access 2007 DB. No one knew how it really worked (and officially my company didn't support this thing). Because the one-man developer died in like 2014.