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 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.

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.

One piece of '90s tech that has seemingly been forgotten and never returned, though, is the floppy disk. Although it still holds on as the standard icon for the "Save" function in computers and apps, ...

Back in the early years of the personal computer, “FloppyData” may not have been recognizable by itself. But looking back on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last floppy disk was made over a ... (£0.80) each, though some higher capacity versions cost up to US$10 (£8 ... Until recently the US military used 8-inch floppy disks in its ...

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 ...