That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...

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

Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a medium for loading microcode into the System ...

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 ...

At one end sits a large magnetic machine with a conveyor belt that wipes out information on disks, while another machine slaps labels on them. The warehouse also holds 8-inch floppy disks — an ...

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 U.S. Defense Department is still using — after several decades — 8-inch floppy disks in a computer system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation's nuclear forces ...

It’s unclear whether they still use floppy disks, too, but the US military employed the even-older 8-inch floppy disks in its nuclear arsenal until 2019. Following the rodeo incident ...

“There’s always some nostalgia,” said Scott Wills, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Georgia Tech who has held on to an old 8-inch floppy disk. “It’s a technology I’m ...