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@chikorita157Interesting how there are some businesses still use floppy disks on their legacy systems. I haven’t really use them since the early 2000s when I was in Junior High School, before I started using flash drives. Yes, it’s been that long ago.
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Some instruments where I was doing my master's thesis only worked exclusively with floppies: 2000-2001.
I'm aware of places using them until 2008-9.
That said, I'm old enough to have dabbled with cassettes and 5.25" disks, so...
@chikorita157@einar When my little sister was working on her Biomedical Engineering PHd, the lab computers were using Windows 7 and XP because the equipment only work on legacy OSes. But legacy tech is not unheard of, especially in the scientific field since the equipment are expensive to replace.
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An instrument had the whole motherboard replaced as it was faster to replace the HW than to update the OS. Similarly, another one more recently had the drives swapped to install the new OS. Given it costs around 250k $, it's probably cheaper that way.