[Coco] https://www.floppydisk.com

[RETRO Innovations]

On 3/16/2023 9:42 PM, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
> A former coworker of mine sent me this link, after he told me they were doing some coding for something that needed to support floppy disks.
>
> “They still make floppy disks?” I asked.
>
> https://www.floppydisk.com/
>
Actually, they do not.  Tom Persky bought a huge lot of disks (a couple 
million, as the interviews suggest) at the start, but the last company 
that made them (Sony) quit in 2012, so he augments with NOS and used.

Not to sound a panic, but Tom noted in a recent interview he will 
probably run the business for ~5 more years and then retire.  If you're 
wanting disks from him, clock is ticking.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/20/floppy_disk_business/

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

A recent article on floppies that I just read a few weeks ago:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/why-the-floppy-disk-just-wont-die/


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