On 2 Dec 2008 at 11:30, David Cantrell wrote:
After they stopped being used in normal computers,
they were still used
in some marine applications for a while, presumably because they were
more physically robust than 3.5" floppies, and were stocked by some
chandlers on the east coast of the UK for use in the North Sea fishing
fleet.
You must be referring to the media; the drives themselves were cheap
tin cans.
Cheers,
Chuck