Floppy disks are still in use today, in planes, trains, industrial sewing machines and more.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols @sjvn@mastodon.social:
In the late 1960s, IBM engineers Alan Shugart and David L. Noble envisioned a compact and portable solution for storing data. This pioneering work, Project Minnow, led to the creation of the first commercially viable 8-inch floppy disk in 1971. Its 79K of storage may seem like nothing to you, but it held the equivalent of 3,000 punched cards. Which would you rather drop? A single disk or thousands of cards?