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5.25" floppies were obsolete for years before they even installed the system in 1998. They could have been using compact flash cards by then.
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It’s not quite as crazy as it seems. The older/larger floppy disk formats were more reliable due to their lower track density.
There was more surface area per byte of data. The old floppy disks could be written once and read for years in harsher environments. New floppy disks we more prone to failure after a few years.
