For the pilot using a Data Disc, Friday night often meant a trip to the office or the hangar with a laptop. The process was manual:
Before the advent of the Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck or cloud-based nav data, pilots who used Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) or early GPS units needed a physical medium to load aviation data. The was a floppy disk (and later a CD-ROM) that contained two critical components: jeppesen program and data disc
If you are using the disc to update avionics, ensure your card reader (e.g., a Skybound reader) is compatible with the JDM version installed from the disc. The Shift Toward Digital Distribution For the pilot using a Data Disc, Friday