At university in the early 1980’s, I saved my Pascal programs that ran on a PDP-11 on an 8” floppy disk. Kept that disk for many years afterwards but, alas, I eventually tossed it in the bin ...

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 smallest USB key has far greater capacity than a 1.44MB 3.5-inch disk, fits in a pocket, and works almost exactly like a disk drive. The only hitch is that a USB key cant boot a PC—yet.

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

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.

A report from the Government Accountability Office has revealed that operational functions for the U.S. nuclear armament are still controlled by 8-inch floppy disks, while other departments are ...

T he German Navy is searching for a new storage system to replace the aging 8-inch (20cm) floppy disks which are vital to the running of its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. According to an ...

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 ...

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 German Navy seeks emulation-based replacements for 8-inch floppy disks in F123 frigates, commissioned in the 1990s. Saab, as general contractor, oversees upgrades to propulsion, weapon systems ...

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 ...