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 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 floppy disk era ended with the 3.5-inch disk being the last hoorah for this beloved era of computing. Capable of holding memory in sizes from 720 KB to 1.44 MB, ...

There are three main sizes of FD: 8 inches, 5.25 inches, and 3.5 inches. In addition to this, ... from an early 8-inch disk that could store about 1594 bits per inch.

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 ...

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 first floppies were flexible 8-inch plastic disks coated with iron oxide and housed in a protective jacket lined with a fabric that would clean the surface of the disk as it rotated.

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 ...