The German Navy is working on modernizing its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates, which means ending their reliance on 8-inch floppy disks. Earlier this month, Augen geradeaus! spotted a tender for ...

The moral of this story is that old technology isn’t necessarily bad technology. And it is a commentary on not replacing something while it is still working just fine. At SiliconANGLE, we are strongly ...

What just happened? The US is rightly regarded as a world leader when it comes to military technology and power, so it always seemed strange that the nation still used 1970's IBM Series-1 computers - ...

The ’60s are alive and well — in federal government computers. A new report says several federal agencies are using outdated computer systems, some with components that are over 50 years old. “For ...

For people under a certain age, the 8 inch floppy disk is a historical curiosity. They might just have owned a PC that had a 5.25 inch disk drive, but the image conjured by the phrase “floppy disk” ...

Maybe they use the '80s flick "War Games" as a training film, too. The U.S. Defense Department is still using — after several decades — 8-inch floppy disks in a computer system that coordinates the ...

The Department of Defense is still using 8-inch floppy disks like these to manage the nation's nuclear arsenal. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Floppy disks and computers from the 1970s. That's how the ...

Years after computer floppy disks went the way of the dodo for most users, the U.S. Air Force still employed 8-inch floppy disks for a few things — like passing on orders to launch the nation’s ...