For people under a certain age, the 8 inch floppy disk is a historical curiosity. They might just have owned a PC that had a 5.25 inch disk drive, but the image conjured by the phrase “floppy ...

The German Navy is seeking a new storage system to replace its old 8-inch floppy disks on its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. These frigates, vital for anti-submarine warfare, ...

The German Navy is working on modernizing its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates, which means ending their reliance on 8-inch floppy disks.. The F123 frigates use floppy disks for their onboard data ...

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

Maybe they use the '80s flick "War Games" as a training film, too. The U.S. Defense Department is still using — after several decades — 8-inch floppy disks in a computer system that ...

It has been revealed that the German Navy is seeking to replace the 8-inch floppy disks essential to the operation of . its Brandenburg-class frigates (Type 123 frigates) with an emulation system.

The German Navy is searching for a new storage system to replace the ageing 8-inch (20cm) floppy disks which are vital to the running of its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. advertisement.

At least one type of floppy disk, the ancient 8-inch introduced by IBM in 1971, seems on the verge of extinction. “There aren’t any left, and we sell the ones we have for $5 [each] in boxes of ...

This pioneering work, Project Minnow, led to the creation of the first commercially viable 8-inch floppy disk in 1971. Its 79K of storage may seem like nothing to you, but it held the equivalent ...

The warehouse also holds 8-inch floppy disks—an even older storage medium—including one labeled as containing the 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon US presidential debate.

Floppy disks (FDs), magnetic disks that record information on personal computers, were widely used mainly from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Programmer Jonathan Palant explains about such FD. JP's ...

At least one type of floppy disk, the ancient 8-inch introduced by IBM in 1971, seems on the verge of extinction. “There aren’t any left, and we sell the ones we have for $5 [each] in boxes of ...