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Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks

Oxonian
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I've got some 51/4 360k ones from my BBC computer, and hundreds of 3.5 inch with Pascal routines on.

This is not O2 and we are all customers here similar to yourself and cannot answer account type queries.
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The 3.5" is still the medium of necessity in the avionics world - the humble Boeing 747 designed the 400-series replacement for the flight engineer around 3 redundant systems, at the heart of each sits the 3.5" floppy drive..

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363122/boeing-747s-floppy-disc-updates-critical-software

 

I had boxes of 8" floppies, and the dual-sided 12" Phillips video disc was a thing for teaching in the late 80s.

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I still have a working external Iomega "Zip" drive with 100Mb and 250Mb discs from circa 2000 ! 👍

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