'Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks'

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The United States' nuclear arsenal will no longer rely on a computer system that uses eight-inch floppy disks

Whew!

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the disks are more widely used than one might expect, especially in industrial machines, aircraft, medical devices and complex hardware systems like those used by the world's militaries. He said he thought it had been roughly five years since anyone had manufactured a new disk.

Someone made an 8-inch floppy 5 years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/u...ppy-disks.html