Good Grief, the American Government Still Uses Floppy Disks
In the video above, floppydisk.com president Tom Persky describes his process of collecting and re-selling the archaic digital storage devices known as floppy disks, and casually drops the name of one of his clients: the US Government.
"We do sell to the US Government," Persky says. "There are a number of applications that the government has that call for the use of a floppy disk."
A NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS? I suppose you don't have to worry about your data being hacked from the Cloud if you keep it on floppy disks.
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