[TangoLimaSierra]

I’m just wondering where they get the 8in floppies. They don’t last forever and have to be replaced.

I'll bet the military has a supplier who still makes them...for $5,000 per diskette.

[JeanLM]

“I’ll bet the military has a supplier who still makes them...”
That would be impossible. I used to run the plant that made the jacketing material for all 8 inch discs. The special resin we used is no longer available. The presses we used are gone. The plates to press them are too. All went to other formats in the early 80’s. They must be working off a big inventory.

The US has a huge inventory of vacuum tubes. Why not 8” floppies?

[Vermont Lt]

They probably bought boxes of them years ago. "Most" of them would not be crap yet. I mean...they still have the shrink wrap on them. Right? <>

[Guardian Sebastian]

I think I still have a copy of Leisure Suit Larry somewhere on floppy.

[Oatka]

I'll bet the military has a supplier who still makes them...for $5,000 per diskette.

The ought to check out eBay:

Ten for $40. Dunno about the 5-year warranty though.

I had a college course where the students had to stand up and give a 10-minute dissertation about something related to their job.

I was a programmer then (RPGII) and remember holding up a box of 80-column cards (1,000 I think) in one hand and the new 8 " floppy and extolling the virtues of data processing and how they had advanced to where that one box could be stored on just one of those floppies - I was in awe.