That's why they finally migrated away from them. But you can be certain that they had stocks of floppies and possibly floppy emulators for dealing with that iss

That's why they finally migrated away from them. But you can be certain that they had stocks of floppies and possibly floppy emulators for dealing with that issue while it was in operation, plus setting up a small scale production for 8" floppies is less problematic than many would assume. In comparison, the new and wonderful system from Lockheed that I mentioned? It pretty sure never ran in "production environment" properly, and I shudder to think how much it and its knock-on effects cost.