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.

Serveal notable industries and organizations still use floppy disks, including the U.S. FAA and San Francisco's Muni Metro ...

Floppy disks (FDs), magnetic disks that record ... As the name suggests, the size is 8 inches (about 200 mm) square, and the capacity was 80 KB when it first appeared, but later products have ...

In Japan, there have long been laws and regulations that specify using floppy disks for submitting application data in some ...

That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along ... the US nuclear missile sites force still used 8-inch floppy disks as part of the system for coordinating operational ...

Few things bring a smile to the face of long-time techies over 30 (or thereabouts) quite like the mention of floppy disks. The earliest, 8-inch models (80KB capacity) arrived in the 1970s and were ...

The challenge is to design a modern system that is fully compatible with 1990s technology, and must fully emulate the functionality of existing 8-inch floppy disks and disk drives. The German Type ...

The German Navy is working on modernizing its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates, which means ending their reliance on 8-inch floppy disks. Earlier this month, Augen geradeaus! spotted a tender for ...

The German navy is still using 8-inch floppy disks and readily admits that this is a problem. But the problem is not reliability, which is in fact the reason they're still in action after decades ...

Instead, it shipped with a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive designed by Sony. Before the Internet, most personal computer software was sold and distributed this way. First on 8-inch floppies ...