I guess a lot of the community members know this piece of IT-history:
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/cc50c298-9f56-455b-9ff2-039ff40716a0.png)
Other will even know this guy:
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/34ebab3a-8830-40a7-bc38-53d18af23fbf.png)
Its a floppy disk! First of these were able to safe 0,24MB (!) And these first ones came out 1971!
Is such a disk still in use? Yes it is! Here are a few examples:
- MS Office
- Older Boeing 747-400 planes still gets their software update on disks
DEF CON 28 Aerospace Village: 747-400 Walk through From a Hacker’s Perspective
at about 7:53 -
Some industry machines still uses disk
You can still buy new disk? Of course, but at a rather high price.
For those not knowing disks, you can listen here how they sound.
Want to use them to make music?! Yes you can!