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 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a medium for loading microcode into the System/370 mainframe during the booting process.

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 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 ...

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 8-inch floppy disk drive was invented by IBM in the late 1960s as a replacement for punch cards. The disks were hailed as a breakthrough in storage , capable of holding the same information as ...

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 ...