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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Ancient industrial machines use ancient windows computers. This has been known forever. There's a whole niche industry of very expensive ram and hard drives and other components keeping this industry going

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah man. Details are going to be fuzzy here, but I think it was only in recent memory where Boeing upgraded the planes in Japan to no longer need floppy disks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yes i still use floppy disks regularly for my cnc plasma table