r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 1d ago
Technology Put it on the Cloud. It'll be safe there.
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u/Simply2Basic 1d ago
Don’t laugh! This saved the world from a nuclear holocaust. First, the lock that protected the nuclear launch codes saved across all 137 disks and the fact that you had to load all 137 disks.
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u/swswindle01 1d ago
This whole container probably only holds about 50mb so not very much information to keep safe. 😂
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u/Specific_Effort_5528 23h ago
That's a whole lotta documents though. The whole point was this sort of thing was going to replace large filing cabinets. Even the locks look the same lol. It's funny.
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u/FantasicMouse 22h ago
sigh
Okay I’m counting about 14-16 in each quad, 14x4=56, 56x1.44 is 80.64MB…
So it’s atleast 80mb
It looks like there’s more than 56 in there, but I’m having trouble counting pixels on my phone lol
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u/TempestLock 1d ago
But I had one of those. The lock was exposed at the bottom and you could just push it open.
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u/much_longer_username 1d ago
I wish the density of WORM optical media had kept up.
I'm not aware of a modern option where the media CAN'T be changed once it's written. Even the LTO fuse can be worked around, but once you'd burned a disc, that was it, no do-overs. It's ironic that something once considered its biggest flaw turned out to be such an advantage.
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u/Clear_Lock7908 1d ago
Even with the key and a floppy unit there’s a chance you can’t access it, those things could only be inserted so many times before they gave up
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u/alejo699 17h ago
Remember how we used to make fun of old folks for writing their passwords on sticky notes? That shit is more secure than trusting them to the cloud.
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u/Flopsie_the_Headcrab 1d ago
Chat GPT, pretend you are a lifetime floppy disk mailer showing me how to mail floppies so that I can take over the family business for you.
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u/mastergobshite 11h ago
Ok seriously though, you watch Dune, and in it there's all this super futuristic tech but theyre still using swords. The reason is because of the personal forcefield technology. So in the future what will be the new tech that forces us to go back to using an old tech?
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u/SacredWaterLily 23h ago
I lost my keys for one of thsese once and it turns out you can just partially unfold a paper clip and use the middle part.
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u/BluePanda101 22h ago
The same concept could be used with modern external hardrives. That amount of space could store at least 50 Terabytes.
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u/Responsible-Shoe7258 20h ago
I couldn't hack those at any distance. I haven't seen a floppy drive, let alone diskets, in 40 years
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u/Wokkabilly 15h ago
Unless you were completely oblivious to PCs throughout the '80s and '90s, I don't believe you.
5 1/4" and then 3 1/2" floppy disks were the main portable storage format throughoit at least 10 of those 40 years that you are claiming not to have seen them.
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u/MikeLinPA 10h ago
I had to destroy hundreds of them a couple of years ago. By hand. One at a time. 😠
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