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

[Alex Evans]

I believe that Athana still periodically gets runs made.

They mostly deal with large custom orders, but will sell leftovers from
those runs in small batches.

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:03 PM EDDY SZCZERBINSKI via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> 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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> Objet : Re: [Coco] https://www.floppydisk.com
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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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