Every sizable manufacturer of floppy disks has exited the market. There are no more (major) suppliers for the tech. They’ve likely been depending on a dwindling supply of functional disks; if at some point they find themselves without enough working disks to operate the system, they will indeed be screwed.
There’s also the chance that they take a disk that’s on the verge of failure, plug it into the system, and some corrupted commands get loaded into the system. That could easily result in a “catastrophic failure”.
Floppy disks are not reliable or cheap. They physically degrade over time, and at this point are nowhere near cheap for “new” disks.
There’s also the chance that they take a disk that’s on the verge of failure, plug it into the system, and some corrupted commands get loaded into the system. That could easily result in a “catastrophic failure”.
Floppy disks are not reliable or cheap. They physically degrade over time, and at this point are nowhere near cheap for “new” disks.