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 ...

If you're like most people, you probably haven't thought about the humble floppy disk in decades. But they're not totally ...

The PC was widely fitted with either 5.25″ or 3.5″ disk drives, but other formats such as the older 8″ discs were not a fixture in the 16-bit desktop computing world.

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5.25-inch floppy disk, which was then overtaken by the 3.5-inch floppy disk in the 1980s and 1990s.

The US military has finally ended the use of 8-inch floppy disks for coordinating the country’s nuclear forces. As of this June, the USA’s SACCS now uses a “highly secure solid state digital ...

The 8-inch floppy disk drive was invented by IBM in the late 1960s as a replacement for punch cards. The disks were hailed as a breakthrough in storage , capable of holding the same information as ...

Early Macs used a proprietary floppy disk format, and once a Mac 3.5-inch disk was create,d it couldn't be read on the IBM PC standard. This made file transfers between the two types of computers ...

An example of an 8-inch floppy disk. It's unclear which brand disks the German Navy uses. Credit: Cromemco, CC BY-SA 4.0 ...