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Citing a recent viral TikTok of a Chuck E. Cheese employee displaying a winter 2023 floppy disk sent from corporate headquarters, Buzzfeed showed how the TikToker loaded a disk into a large ...
We’re still getting [floppy disks] in 2023,” Stewart commented before popping the disk into a computer behind him. @showbizpizzaman How to install a new show at Chuck E. Cheese ♬ original ...
The technology has been used by Chuck E. Cheese for 25 years. The 3.50-inch floppy can hold 1.44 MB of data, and works in a ‘Cyberstar’ rack-mount computer system which can be dated back to 1998.
Chuck E. Cheese was using the disks for its mechanical animal routines until 2023, and it was only in 2019 that the Pentagon dropped them as part of its nuclear weapons systems.
Various industries also continue using floppy disks to help run machines that have long been used, as Chuck E. Cheese did for animatronics as recently as 2023 and professional embroiderers do with ...
Postmedia News Published Mar 12, 2023 • Last updated Mar 12, 2023 • 3 minute read Join the conversation A floppy disk made to control Chuck E. Cheese animatronics.Photo by Kevin Fifer / Ebay ...
According to Persky, the floppy disk is still being used in the airline and medical-tech sectors. Less than 50 of the company's 600 'entertainment centers' still use this retro-tech, and Chuck E.