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

Thu Mar 16 23:02:44 EDT 2023

In the case people are looking for 8 inch disks, I have some unopened new ones in boxes of ten - and in various colours too.
I am in Quebec City.

Eddy Szczerbinski
Magicien Textile Wizard
@EdSzczerbinski
418 580 8464
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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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