German navy still using 8-inch floppy disks

Mentioned this on a different thread earlier this year. One computer at work is used for programming an avionics box that hasn’t been made since the '80s but is still in use in the world. It uses the large floppy format. The computer can’t support an upgrade and there are no funds to update to a newer technology. We have to get repair parts off ebay whenever it breaks.

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