German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks!

[El Heggunte]

@ LigH and Selur — ¿do you confirm this?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/german-navy-still-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-wor...a-replacement/

«For the typical person, floppy disks are obsolete, but government bodies with already established and successfully running systems in place have been much slower to abandon the old storage medium. Besides the German Navy and US Air Force, Japan only last month officially stopped using floppy disks in governmental systems. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency plans to use 5¼-inch floppies to help run San Francisco's Muni Metro light rail system until 2030.

Various industries also continue using floppy disks to help run machines that have long been used, as Chuck E. Cheese did for animatronics as recently as 2023 and professional embroiderers do with embroidery machines.»

[Selur]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ old hardware, old tech, not really a surprise,...
(some folks here still use Windows XP)

[pandy]

lol see no problem with this - lot of (if not all) nuke missiles are rather late 70's designs, some of them may even use ferrite core memory - military people are rather conservative guys...

(some folks here still use Windows XP)

Technically i don't see significant progress since Windows 2000 - XP, Windows 7...Windows 10 are like GUI for GUI...

[aedipuss]

lol. we got to the moon and back using computers with 4Kb ram. much like a commodore 64 or atari 800.... nothing wrong with floppy discs, they are just a storage medium, albeit small.

[TreeTops]

Hard to believe that the floppy disk drives are still working.

[aedipuss]

i have working atari 800 and commodore 64 floppy drives

[TreeTops]

Amazing!