https://nypost.com/2022/10/20/floppy-disks-get-second-life-out-of-california-warehouse/
Note that they are still used for transfer of avionics data.
Anyone remember their first floppy disks? Mine was in 1976 with an 8" drive that had a knob to select the starting track. Pretty clunky but better than paper tape for loading a 64K operating system. Then we went to 5 1/4 inch ones that held 525 K and finally to the 3 1/2" ones that held 1.44 MB.
Note that they are still used for transfer of avionics data.
Anyone remember their first floppy disks? Mine was in 1976 with an 8" drive that had a knob to select the starting track. Pretty clunky but better than paper tape for loading a 64K operating system. Then we went to 5 1/4 inch ones that held 525 K and finally to the 3 1/2" ones that held 1.44 MB.
