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sillywalk
on July 13, 2024
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German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, workin...
It looks like these ships were laid down in '92, and commissioned a few years later, which seems very late to use 8" floppies.
mike_hearn
on July 13, 2024
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They were on the way out but any equipment installed on a ship in the 90s would have been designed a lot earlier, and military equipment often lags due to long qualification times.
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