{"id":192863,"date":"2024-07-12T19:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/german-navy-to-replace-aging-8-inch-floppy-drives-with-an-emulated-solution-for-its-anti-submarine-frigates"},"modified":"2024-07-12T19:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:23:04","slug":"german-navy-to-replace-aging-8-inch-floppy-drives-with-an-emulated-solution-for-its-anti-submarine-frigates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/german-navy-to-replace-aging-8-inch-floppy-drives-with-an-emulated-solution-for-its-anti-submarine-frigates","title":{"rendered":"German Navy to replace aging 8-inch floppy drives with an emulated solution for its anti-submarine frigates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/german-navy-to-replace-aging-8-inch-floppy-drives-with-an-emulated-solution-for-its-anti-submarine-frigates2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The German Navy is searching for a new storage system to replace the aging 8-inch (20cm) floppy disks which are vital to the running of its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. According to an official tender document, the ideal answer to the German Navy\u2019s problems would be a drop-in floppy disk replacement based upon a storage emulation system, reports <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golem.de\/news\/brandenburg-klasse-deutsche-marine-braucht-neue-8-zoll-floppys-fuer-fregatten-2407-186927.html\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.golem.de\/news\/brandenburg-klasse-deutsche-marine-braucht-neue-8-zoll-floppys-fuer-fregatten-2407-186927.html\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">Golem.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Brandenburg class F123 frigates were commissioned in the mid 1990s, so it is understandable that floppy disks were seen as a handy removable storage medium. These drives are part of the frigates\u2019 data acquisition system and, thus \u201ccentral to controlling basic ship functions such as propulsion and power generation,\u201d according to the source report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Navy is searching for a new storage system to replace the aging 8-inch (20cm) floppy disks which are vital to the running of its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. According to an official tender document, the ideal answer to the German Navy\u2019s problems would be a drop-in floppy disk replacement based upon a storage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}