And you thought the floppy was dead?

[Gasman]

It might well be now, unless someone knows of a similar or any other use as in this link.?

https://allthatsinteresting.com/air-force-saccs?utm_campaign=fbpdpih

 

[arnelgp]

good to know, I've seen those big floppies when I was in college.
also during my college days, we also use cassette tapes (really the one used in Walkman) as storage medium.

 

[kevlray]

I still have a stack of punch cards for a program I wrote in college. I think the language was PL/1.

 

[jdraw]

I recall a purchase of a LOBO disk drive set up (2- 8 Inch floppy drives) for a TRS-80.
(Probably ~81-82 timeframe??)
I also have a few punch cards from university that I use as bookmarks in some older books.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The article says they moved to a new solid-state system. USB thumb drives?

That would easily replace the 8 inch floppy. They might even have room for a more modern O/S on that setup. But you can bet they won't step to Windows 10. That O/S absolutely will NOT be happy if you don't patch it every so often. It will beg, whimper, and scream for a connection to the internet so that it can go suck on the Microsoft patch teat.

 

[jdraw]

Doc,
Are you working with your new machine? or is it the trusty, reliable, soon to be moth-balled one that always works?