10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
7:13 a.m.
Thats exactly the solution. Just keep a few floppies around so that you can transfer a
saved image back to floppy to be read by the machine that needs it.
Personally, there was so much media manufactured that I think the machines that read the
media will fail long before we run out of media.
Wayne
On Mar 9, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Christopher Zach via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Interesting article but when goteks are 30 a pop on ebay and work on something as wonky
as a professional 350, I think it's time to let 5.25 floppies go
I'll get a teac but mainly to convert all my pdp11 floppies to images.
Cz
> On March 9, 2023 7:00:39 PM EST, Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> https://www.wired.com/story/why-the-floppy-disk-just-wont-die/
>
> Take what you want from the article, but I thought the end paragraph, noting that Tom
Persky of floppydisk.com is 73 and is only planning to handle things for 5 more years.
After that, he thinks the company will not transfer to anyone.
>
> Interesting thoughts there.
>
> Jim
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