People who won't give up floppy disks

[Caete]

Rendezvous with Rama was my favourite. The 64 only ever had a tape drive. The IIe had two (2), count them TWO1, disk drives and it was pure Heaven it was.

The c64 could handle up to 4 disk drives (sold separately) at a time. I still own both my SX-64s which each have a built in disk drive and 5" colour monitor. I used to run a BBS with one of them, with the internal drive and 2 external 1541s (1 original model, 1 newer model with actual dipswitches) and a 1571. So the tape drive was never seen by my systems but a friend had one and hated me for lugging my SX over as it was all self contained and the case it had was for the keyboard and power cable.

 

[Khamon]

Thank you all for the corrections. I was referring to my setups and have edited the post accordingly.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Commodore 64 had a floppy drive, it was the 1541... gad the things I remember off the top of my head decades after the fact...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541

Damned head on those things was notorious for going out of alignment, resulting in frequent Disk Error 23's.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Just spotted this:

 

[Free]

Oof.

German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement

Four Brandenburg-class F123 warships employ floppies for data-acquisition systems.

arstechnica.com

The German Navy is working on modernizing its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates, which means ending their reliance on 8-inch floppy disks.

The F123 frigates use floppy disks for their onboard data acquisition (DAQ) systems, as noted by Tom’s Hardware on Thursday. Augen geradeaus!, a German defense and security policy blog by journalist Thomas Wiegold, notes that DAQs are important for controlling frigates, including power generation, "because the operating parameters have to be recorded," per a Google translation. The ships themselves specialize in anti-submarine warfare and air defense.

Earlier this month, Augen geradeaus! spotted a tender for service published June 21 by Germany's Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology, and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) to modernize the German Navy's four F123 frigates. The ships were commissioned from October 1994 to December 1996. As noted by German IT news outlet Heise, the continued use of 8-inch floppies despite modern alternatives being available for years "has to do with the fact that established systems are considered more reliable.”