Where Floppy Disks are Still in Use
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Do you remember floppy disks? Well, they're still a thing. Sort of. Tom Persky, president of Floppydisk.com continues to acquire and process floppy diskettes for sale.
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So he basically has a monopoly on the floppy disk business because he's the only one left. Smart man.
Stonks
You say smart man but (and maybe this is a bad example because i believe their are one or two open and doing OK) but would you consider buying into Blockbuster after they became a outdated business model?
It seems if we read between the lines there is good chance they are still using discs for like storing nuclear codes etc. Impossible to remotely access etc.
The last man standing
That's not quite true. Other online market places like eBay are a huge market for obsolete media -like floppy diskettes.
@@samuelwoods164 Because he still has the market, period
This guy is such a cool dude. You can't not feel happy from watching this video.
cannot*
btw here after 6 years, how's life? :)
@@8yoboi No, it's can't not.
@@sammytiel Bro, my teeth's almost broke pronouncing "can't not"
I understand it's can't not, but you CAN'T use double negatives.
The sad thing is that the quality of the magnetic material really tanked in the 2000's, so used disks from the 80's are generally way more reliable than new old stock. It depends on the type of magnetic material used and how well-aligned the original track formatting is. 8" disks from the 70's last practically forever, so indeed they are great to use for legacy applications, rather than trying to upgrade to flash storage or even hardware emulators. Yes, the government still uses them, and no, they are no joke! They work really well and last for decades.
I have an Amiga 1200 I bought in 1992, and after all these years almost every floppy disk from that era still works great. Newer blank disks (cirra 2005) I picked up as backups are almost all dead or unusable fresh out of the box. Contrary to what you might think, specialty manufacturing usually has much lower quality standards than mass-produced products, so it's hard to get reliable floppy disks these days even from new, sealed packages from a few years ago. I'll never part with my old 880K disks.
Buying used disks isn't a bad idea, really. Cheers to this guy!
Some of this is a myth , for instance people using HD disks in DD drives.... and vice versa... the only things I can remember that messed up floppies was sitting it next to a CRT monitor (which degassed when turned on, also a common probalby on early portable PCs which had CRTs since people would leave the boot floppy in the drive and the display would degaus it when turning on). Perhaps new floppies are worse though... I'd like to see the paint used on the disks reverse engineered so people could make their own floppies with simple tools.
What I want to know is what happened to magnetic tape computers.
Recently bought two (new old stock) IBM USB floppy drives. Have found Dysan 3.5" floppies to be reliable. Why have I done this?... because I can 🙂
@@Wingnut353 I don't think its a paint I think it's a chrome/ferrite coating they put on/in the plastic, similar to cassette tapes. Though it's not really something someone could make themselves, in theory if you could find sheets of magnetized plastic like that you might be able to cut it out in a circle and glue it onto the metal spindle, then use it in an existing floppy case, or put it in a paper or plastic sleeve like the older 5.25 disks.
Probably wouldn't be reliable though since these usually require industrial manufacturing otherwise they'll be less reliable due to dust, scratches, or just not having as good materials.
If I ever find something magnetic like that which I could cut a disc shape out of I might try it just to see how long it lasts.
@@harryvendryes Do you know if your drive supports both High Density and Double Density Disks? I know that some newer drives only support High Density. I do have a Dell one I got used that seems to support both (though I only tried formatting HD floppies as DD, don't really want to try my DD floppies in it yet).
I’m an IT assistant at a giant combustion company with a lot of engineers and some of those engineers still use DOS and floppy disks for certain programs.
This should have been longer lol. Seemed like there was more stuff he could have told haha
Hey, wouldn't want his competitors to find out all his secrets.....wait....
I still use them - I carry data between my Windows 10 machine and my 25+ year old 386 DOS machine which, believe it or not, still works faster than Windows!
I guess your hardware of your "new" PC is to old too or to cheap to handle a modern operating system. But hey... still better than apple 😉
@@Gebieter Guess again. My Dell is a couple years old and has abundant RAM available - it loads and runs internet applications easily. But it also loads and runs anti-virus, anti-spyware, and countless other RAM-heavy applications, which not only consume RAM but also slow down the performance of other programs. And those programs are heavy, heavy, heavy with graphics and graphic interfaces to begin with. The goal of the programmer is to make it simple to use, but all that simplicity comes at a high cost of RAM.
The DOS computer, on the other hand, uses no graphic interface at all - Everything requires a keyboard command. Letters and numbers only - no mouse, no touching the screen, no talking. Bits and bytes. The programs are small leaving a lot of RAM open to manipulate data. The programs are NOT written to be simple to use, but fast. I use the DOS computer for a database (dBase) and a spreadsheet (LOTUS 123) and each runs much faster on the old 386 than they do on the new Dell.
I use them as well because it is the easiest way to transfer data between my Raspberry Pi, modern Windows PC, classic Windows / DOS PC and C64. Sometimes I look for nicely designed diskettes on Ebay. Like, disks in different colors look much like the data storage medium used in Star Trek TOS. :-)
@@ROGER2095 I read someplace on quora from the experiences made by a few profetional pc builders at universities that when they were upgrading the ram of the pc from 4 gigabytes to like 12 gigabytes of ram, they were puzzled to find that the machine was still using 60 percent of the ram space. But what they learned from their trainers that the goal of computer storage is to make it to where it holds more useful instructions than compared to the computers with 4 gigabytes of ram resulting in it getting useful instructions, but too much to where it overflows, leading to the pc lagging. Soo, what I've read is that it is mostly good that for a performance pc that has 60 to 70 percent of ram because it has useful instructions that help it run faster, that is as long as if it had 8 to 12 gigabytes of ram. Although, I do believe that virus protection will eat away at the performance of the cpu because it would be constantly checking for maliscious activity for each click you make. But that would be on the cpu side, not the ram if you have 8 to 12 gigs of ram.
Although, while dos may just be a text based software, it was released long before a computer was considered a multi-use media processing machine. The computer was originally made strictly more as a office desk tool back then, made to write documents and do faculties then as that was what many people really did back then besides watching television, instead of playing online games and facebook and listening to music and videos. As for games on old 8 bit computers, I think those were played with by kids who grew in wealthier conditions due to prices soo high. But I think that's as close to music and media as I can think for 80's pc's.
@@ROGER2095 Pre-built computers are not the pinnacle of performance they used to be in the 80s and 90s. They're meant to be cheap and budget friendly. Your modern computer is running low end hardware. Unlike your DOS PC which probably has relatively high end hardware.
I remember when USB came out, it got so much faster but I still liked the looks of the floppy disks
+HMan Gaming u skipped cd roms then?
So did I, I never liked write once only and fragile as FUCK. 1.44 x 500 floppies were better than CD because they wouldn't die if you accidentally looked at them wrong
HMan Gaming Floppies were inserted WITH PURPOSE.
Yeah got first USB drive in 2001 which was 32mb - I hammer throw my stack of floppy disks.
At least he admits it is gonna die unlike that one guy with audio cassettes.
i know right
Unless they start manufacturing tapes besides Type I again and licensing the Dolby Noise Reduction technology, audio cassettes are already pretty much a dead format.
Which is a shame because it's not that much worse than vinyl.
Tetsuron vinyl can have multi tracks and it will be random what they play kinda awesome Beatles gave a free track in one tape.as.a surprise.
@@Takeshi357 You clearly haven't heard of Dungeon Synth, right ?
It's a genre which almost exclusively releases their albums on tape.
Actually CDs are more of a rare thing in the genre compared to tapes.
So nah the Cassette tape is very much alive in the Underground.
I work with commercial jets and it was only within the last couple of years that we switched from floppy disks as an update delivery medium. Now we use a specialised portable computer (looks like a 12 inch tablet, but it's 3 inches thick) that holds all the latest software updates for the different computers on the various aircrafts we have.
It always made me giggle a little to see that floppy drive in the cockpit.
Quick Access Recording (QAR) is now done wireless (GSM or LTE) but used to be PCMCIA, others use optical storage devices (Iomega Zip drives), and way back when we flew MD80's, there was tape. About the size of a VHS cassette, but half as thick and made of metal.
QAR is used for statistics for the airline, by analysing the data they can possibly shave of fuel consumption and wasted travel time.
I like the slow access times of the floppy disk.
It's good because when I'm designing loading forms for my VB6 programs, I can test they correctly display.
Just today I started making a car home service database program, which fits on a floppy disk.
When you close it, a message stating "Writing unsaved data to disk. Stand by..." Appears for a few seconds.
Gone are the days you could fit a slimmed down computer OS on a single floppy.
Nuclear missile facilities use floppy disks.
Probably 8 inch ones at that.
We're doomed
solidstate0 Former Air Force. Yup, 8 inch.
manictiger Grrr I'm offended.
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The "Floppy Disc" business won't be around forever.
Interviewer: "Are you sad about that?"
No, because I won't be around forever either.
Perfect answer.😂😂😂
Vinny Sharma like his attitude, realisitc about it.
JOE SMITH: That's the type of attitude that impresses me, pragmatic and honest, straight up, no horseshit! Nowadays too many people are so adroit at beating around the bush and have the damned sugar duster in hand.
We should all just say what we feel and think but not be a prick about it.
Vinny Sharma There us no Forever.
Blue Marshall: You may have a point there bud, I read a Buddhist zen quote that said something similar, it went something like: "There is no such thing as eternity because we're already living in it"
Now, I must say, it's quite a job to impress or stun me and this quote got my attention.
Vinny Sharma perfect enjoy it while you can
Copied joke.
When my kid saw the floppy he told me, "Dad, someone's 3d printed the save icon."
Haha 😂
Props to you for not taking credit for the joke!
Haha
XD
" Dont copy that floppy "
Funny thing is, his entire office must have around the same storage capability as my flashdrive
thank god. new floppys. now i can make boot disk.
You can try get windows 0.1.0.11
I am always kinda surprised when people are surprised floppy disks are still around.
While consumer goods might be specced to last a few years at most, critical systems are often specced in decades, and you really do not want them to be redesigned every time the fickle consumer market shifts.
how about recordable VHS tapes? are they still around or are the gone?
They're still widely available in stores here and widely used!
There's nothing like it!
thomase13 that's great to hear! what stores? can't find them at walmart
There's a drug store near my house that has them I'm pretty sure.
Also Dollarama around here commonly has VHS cassettes, blank, and with older films on them.
If you're desperate, you can find anything on the Web; eBay and Amazon have them!
Good luck! :)
If you live in america, goodwill
I still use floppy disks. I have some old organs and synthesizers from the 1990s that uses them as storage medium.
" Dont copy that floppy "
Jeff Jones One floppy... two floppies... magic.
✨💾💾✨
Thats the least useless use of floppy disx
Hahaha good one 🍌😄👉
He protec
He attac
but most importantly
he save disk from copy attac
💾 ->📺-> 💾 I copied that floppy
Our robotics laboratory at uni has an older ABB industrial robot that takes floppies on it's control rack to upload programs to it.
That and it's LCD is showing typical 90s LCD fading (old polarizer's glue goes bad and dark). Tiny things to fix/upgrade that we feel like doing, but if anything ever goes bad, it's a few thousands to fix again, so it's all like, left as-is till the end of days
Kalvinjj same. I have two CNC machines that can take a 3.5" floppy. Also worked at a place several years ago where the CMM machine ran Windows 3.1 and had a floppy drive
I first use the 5.25" floppy disk, and the 3.25" micro floppy disk was a heaven sent in those times
Floppy disks? You mean giant save button right?
Called floppy disk.
+Анхаа 0909 Called giant save button.
Whatever
@@bg357wg giant copy button
Youngen, you ain't seen anything yet. There were bigger ones, and they actually were floppy. You can wave them around, and they flop.
I remember collecting AOL floppies for Windows. I formatted all of them and was laughing my ass off at all the free storage space I got from doing so............ because I had a mid 1990's Mac at the time, so I couldn't use the Windows version of AOL anyway. lol
All the free storage! Gosh, imagine how much you could back up on 10 floppies! Crazy, right?
I don't know why I love floppy disks so much, I was born in the mid-2000's and only gained an interest in them just this month xD
I always used to tell people to be careful where they put their floppy! I cleaned of lot of discs that had viruses.
I used to bring these to school for our computer class and we call them "diskettes" too. Sadly, after 2 years of using it (I was 8), it was replaced with pen-drive :(
Yeah, I remember using a floppy disk for my 5th grade final project. One day at school I put it into the computer and tried to open my files but got the "disk read" error. The teacher didn't know what to do so she called Julio, the school's building manager. He was like a legend, he could fix anything. It was just him and a few helpers were in charge of cleaning the floors, changing light bulbs, trash cans, etc. So 10 minutes later he came in, held my floppy disk up to the light, opened the metal shutter. Took a pencil and spun it around. Blew on it, put it back in a few times. We all thought he was going to fix it. But it still didn't work. So he said, "I'm sorry kid, I tried but that's all I can do." So I had to start over my project! At least I had a rough draft on paper!
I can still see floppy disks in the workshop where I work. Some CNC maschines have some files in floppy disk.
Floppy disk will always be cool.
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I wish we had multiple different platforms of keeping data instead of just using CDs and streaming
Imagine that when in school teacher ask you for a presentation, but you bring it on a floppy.
Worst of all, in my school it (tought it never happened) could be possible to read the floppy, cause school computers are so old they still have floppy drive
That's not a bad idea to still have PCs in the school with floppy drives. Because in case all other data fail, you can still backup on floppy, right?
@@jeromeglick what?
wym "all other data fail"?
if you mean to say floppies are reliable - they aren't, the data gets corrupted very easily on them, all it takes is a magnet or even placing it on a TV for too long.
You all laugh at the floppy disk and think its technology from Napoleon, I'm only 29 and I remember having the floppy disk as elementary top of the line technology back in the day. In fact, most people above 25 had indeed used floppy disks for some serious function.
That was late, think they was pretty much out of use by then outside of boot discs and driver install of stuff like raid arrays during OS install.
In industry they are in use simply as you use lots of old computers controlling machines.
The save icon is still often a floppy disk, which is a nice touch.
I have a collection of about 200+ 3.5 inch disks and I'm not planning to throw them or something.... But still I'm so happy that people are still using our good old buddies (floppy disks)
Convenience isn't always safer. Floppy disks may hold less information and process slower, but it's much more secure.
Much more reusable than flash memory too, you can degauss them and reformat them and not have any risk of files remaining on them.
I remember them 🤣 and when Apple Macintosh computers had a colourful logo 😳 omg yeah I’m getting old
good job ;) i have many 12" 8" 5.25" 3" 3.5" floppy disks and i can say it is still usable after 10, 15, 20 years :)
Floppy Disks are still a thing.......Well atleast in the music community xD
They are?
How it can be used since most mp3 songs are very larger than 1.44mb disc?!
Unless you have an old mpc 2000 i dont see much use for a floppy lol
hell yeah, and old scsi drives for samplers and all sorts.
new gear is expensive, so you end up buying older stuff that still works to rack instead.
a lot of this gear uses floppies and stuff
i wish there was someone like him for crt monitors
Why? Those things emit a ton of radiation and use a lot more electricity. I can literally feel a CRT monitor or TV powered on about two rooms away from me. I've never liked that feeling.
This video lasted as long as the size the floppy disk could hold.
Well more or less, the 1.44MB is the space that's free when using FAT16 due to the file allocation table, a raw disk has slightly more space. There are also different sizes of Floppy disks out there, the older DD diskettes were only 720K but there were also ED 2.88MB Disks which were less common, then there were the rare 120MB SuperDisks. Though the HD ones were the most common, those are the 1.44MB everyone was familiar with when formatted as IBM format (FAT16).
I still have my old floppies and floppy drives, but with my latest computers I use embedded multi card readers instead. My floppy equivalent today are SD cards that can store as much as an entire hard drive. Still, the old floppies remain reliable.
I tried using diskettes myself, but I find that they kept corrupting every once and a while, which results in data loss. So I use cd-rws with a few backups. And there are still computers with cd writer drives still manufactured today. Though, I still wish diskettes were still widely used, and more robust. Cd rw's are the closest things to floppies.
There's also DVD-RAM, it's an optical disc you can write to almost like a floppy disk or hard drive. But CDRWs are much easier to come across and less expensive.
@@ThexthSurvivor yeah. And less likely to corrupt. I corrupted mine, but I was able to extract the files before formatting it and putting all the files back on it. It hasn't corrupted since.
Well that explains all of the funny looks I got about 6 months ago when I went to the different office supply stores looking for blank discs. I honestly didn't know that they are not made anymore.
I remember when CompUSA had 100 discs for free after rebate. Of course I never got the rebate, and the discs were Chinese junk with tons of read/write errors. My 20+ year old Verbatim discs are still readable today.
It's like when I walk in to the CVS and they don't sell videotapes? How am I going to record Alex Trebek's last episode of Jeopardy? Or the Barbara Walters special? Or Oprah's bombshell interview with Harry and Megan:?
why so many dislikes?
flash drive manufacturers!
kids
I would like to utilize floppy discs as a sort of key for computers. Imagine being able to log in to your account only when the correct floppy disc has been inserted. Maybe your accounts don't even have to show up at all.
USB is also a good option, but the floppy disc is something that needs revitalizing.
I would like to see floppy disks as another option to use.
The thought of someone still using floppy disks today... is scary.
Only us 1980's generation and prior, have so much memories with Floppy Disk, Vinyl LP records, Laser Disc, VHS, Tape Cassette, Mini Disc/Discman, etc.
I have a floppy disk on the wall of my cubicle. It's like a peice of art, a conversation starter. I found it in a pile of old supplies in a copy room that obviously hadn't been organised in 20 years.
Floppy disk today are still use in retro collector. Like 8bit Guy, LGR, and CineMasscre. But I also used a floppy for my Sony Mavica FD81
I still use floppy disks. i write my manuscripts on older machines because of the lack of distraction (using Ms-Dos word processors. then all you need is a UBS floppy drive to transfer. Pure text, to this day, still does not take alot of space. I find they are like cassettes, part of their apeal is the tactility. they are Tangible.
I like running games and such off of floppy disks because the sound quality is so much warmer than USB sticks.
I just wanted to say im only turning 23 this year, and i grew up with floppy disks.
I love them.. always
I have a small plastic box of 8 assorted color floppy disks. I throw away broken usb drives but never these useless 3 megabyte storage devices. I play with the floppy disk shutter from time to time. There's something in old tech that is just satisfying that current tech doesn't have.
Ditto trackballs and laptops that have magnesium frames with solid/thick casings. I like solid 'clunk' sounds and buttons that have a solid 'click' . Can't explain why... I just do. The great thing is that I'm never playing catch-up. I buy once and forget; or until it wears out and I need to buy another.
Long live the floppy!
When 30 MB or larger driver installation came out, I asked a friend who is talented programmer and engineer: how big would driver really be in terms of data to function properly? He said: few kilobytes.
Thus I use NVCleanInstall.
I love floppy disks.
My father still uses floppies for remanufactured x-ray equipment like OEC 9800s and C-Arms. The computers require floppy disks to boot up and operate.
Lost in the world of funds - a poetic reflection on the journey to reclaim them.
Floppy disks are still used to update Nav Data Bases in some airplanes (Primus 1000 and 2000 avionics systems, for example)
I bet the retro computer community loves him
Indeed we do, there's a certain charm to inserting a floppy and hearing the sounds as it spins up. They also feel more tangible than newer flash based solutions. Oh not to mention they're so much easier to label. SD card labels seem to resist being written to for some reason, not Floppy labels though.
These days people, especially students will not be knowing about these.... This video is helping. Thank u
Some semiconductor companies and other company with robotic arms and burn-in machines still uses floppy disk. They also still use old computers like the HC-20( the oldest laptop). These computers are hard to repair not to mention how hard to find their components nowadays. We have a for repair Siemens industrial computer here that came from a drug manufacturing facility which still run on DOS. It's funny to think that these companies are developing cutting edge technologies with the use of ancient machines. One reason they still want to use it is because upgrading requires a lot budget. Including new operating systems, hardwares and offcourse they also have to convert their machines to run in these newer computers. All of those upgrades is only available thru the supplier of the machine it self. One thing gets broken and you'll have to buy an overpriced replacement from them. But the big problem is the suppliers of the machines itself abandoned their old models which making upgrade for some hard if not impossible. Like there is a company which whose machine's touch panel (non standard size) is broken, now they have to replace the whole machine just because of defective touch panel.
Moral of the story... real life is not conducive to the fast pace of technological change.
"Where floppy disks are still in use" *Shows video about how a person obtains floppy disks*
And tells where they are still in use and get bought from him after he refurbished them.
This guy is a legend
I just bought one from eBay and got it today on the 12 October 2020
why so many downvotes?
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+Henry Ettoit Hipsters
Henry Ettoit probably from the people that know the difference between a floppy disk and a diskette.
Most likely from children
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Gosh think of the tons of data that we have lost forever because this guy bulk-wipes the disks. I bet those two Osborne 1 games we see in the video don't even exist anymore and that's only two disks. Think of all the drivers, programs, operating systems that were wiped from existence due to this process.
This man has a very happy spirit
Does the quality/durability of the disks go down any after this process? I mean these recycled disks can't be as good as sealed package ones right? Genuine questions I have no idea
The old ones from the 70s-early 90s are much more reliable as they were made with higher standards. Floppies after that period were made as cheap as possible and are very unreliable.
When I was in school the school sold floppies for $2 each. Then maybe 2 years later everything magically changed to usb sticks. Then in high school they wanted $40 for the flash drive. In college the school gave them away for free!
I still use a flash drive I got for free in college ~12 years ago. It's like 5mb but I use it for transferring jpegs and dxf files to my fiber laser engraver
@@tylercrawford4534 In my experience the problem with flash drives is wear and tear, I guess because I use them so much. The one I got in college didn't even last me through college because at some point in my 4th year, the computer couldn't read-write to it unless I put pressure on it in a certain direction while it was plugged in. Then another USB drive got destroyed when a large industrial trash can on wheels bumped into the computer it was plugged into and it snapped off. My latest drive that I got 4 yrs ago now has read-write errors. Sigh...
I still have so many floppy disk that I used as a kid that I just won't let go of. I really want to see what I have saved in it. 😔
Get a floppy disk drive (you can buy one that connects to your computer via USB cable) then copy the contents of the disks to your computer, a different folder for each disk. If you use a Windows computer now, and the floppies were formatted for Windows/DOS (or "IBM-compatible"), it should work. But if you used a Mac back then and Windows now or vice-versa, it may not work. There are other methods, though.
Kim Jong Un still uses a floppy disk. Heck, there's a meme of him holding a floppy disk and saying: "with this technology, the united states will bow down to me" or something like that!
3 years later he died and after that floppy disks will be gone forever
Man I need to get some floppies
The single floopy i had, well...
I made a guinea pig door out of it
Rick Beare be careful for what you ask for ;]
Rick Beare Magneto-optical disks were way-y-y cooler. How else does one take down the monolithic techno-conspiracy... in style.
Kerchunk... ambiguous lines of computer code... boom... score for the good guys!
I still have a digital piano made in 2001, and it has the disk input system for midi files.
That last line was priceless! 👌
Don't copy that floppy.
+alex kot You wouldn't download a car.
+Bladsmith FUCK YOU I WOULD IF I COULD (jk)
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Kids of this generation never saw floppy. In my school days owning a floppy with 1.44 mb of memory was everything. I use to store pics of my favourite bollywood star. Those days gone.
I stored porn on them. You could only store a few pics though, no videos.
Poor man died a year later from videos release what a legend for keeping the business in
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bull, no evidence
@@smartpug967 search it up
@Tiyamsi Miyamsi yea look up his name u will find it
@@Phantom-jm4py stop lying dude, he's alive. wtf do you think you'll get out of this
I just got through watching a piece from Reuters in 2022 about this guy. For somebody who has said at least two times in six years that this won't last forever, he's lasted at least as long as it has taken for CDs and DVDs to finally die.
Your a man after my own heart,having gotten a couple of Sony Mavica's I dug up some of my old floppies
jesikebiking Which Sony Mavica's do you have?
It is not entirely true, that floppy disks won't be around forever - 1000s of years from now, the 'Save' icon will still be a floppy disk.
I've seen plenty of industrial, manufacturing, and aerospace machines which are built around computers and softwares from the 1990s and 2000s. $$,$$$-$,$$$,$$$ platforms which were upgraded (long ago) to WinNT or Win2K or WinXP, which still use things like ancient RS232 interfaces and floppy disks.
Real businesses in the real world do not throw large sums of money away. The old machines keep getting used on the floor as long as they can still do the work well enough, they aren't discarded and they aren't modernized (because it's not really necessary and it would cost money). There's actual advantages in EOL systems which use old networking methods and which don't constantly insist on updating or changing stuff that already works.
In fact, they usually only upgrade these systems very reluctantly, as the last option they'll consider, only when they're absolutely counterproductive or incompatible with whatever newer softwares are run on the "frequently upgraded" office/admin machines (only executives and upper managerials ever get expensive latest-and-greatest tech and they don't care about other machinery in the plant until it becomes too primitive to constantly monitor from their desks). Even when they do upgrade old machines they'll make every effort to emulate the old tech as much as possible instead of embracing newer tech. If they can't replace that old burnt-out PC104 box with another old less-burnt-out PC104 box then they'll typically use a modern SBC to emulate the functions of the old unit - instead of simply running the SBC at its natively superior specs - instead of simply dropping in a modern PC box instead.
Anyone who works as a CNC machinist, a millwright, or a BMET in the real world will have to eventually operate or service decades-old computers. Will hoard copies of the "obsolete" software in whatever "obsolete" media formats are necessary to keep things working.
Collecting classic computers and game software-- got lots and lots of floppy discs.
Many not so old CR equipment use floppies for configuration and software install, even for backups.
Who knows you can aquire old data from the past. It's like an old relic.
I remember buying the multicolored ones for school in elementary :]
When I was learning the DOS commands, I forgot how to delete files. So I rubbed the exposed magnetic film of the diskette with my fingers. Surely, the diskette became unreadable and I called the teacher for a replacement diskette.
del
Lol
ohh u nub, shouldve typed "help"
Have any Monopoly on floppy disk manufacturing because you're the only one left
*STONKS*
Love to buy some disks from this man
I program on a theatre light board that still saves data to floppy disks. We don't throw our old ones out either, we reformat and save over.
Floppies are still being used for updating navigational database on some older airplanes
1:30 lol 10 million fireflies in the background
10 million floppy disk
in my computer space
I want to send this guy all my old floppy disks!
Well, do it. I'm sure he'd love to have them. He did say his company securely erases them, tests them, and then sells them. And I often buy them. I use them for boot disks, storing & carrying small files, and in my Sony Mavica FD95 (a digital camera that saves photos to floppy disks).
We have a couple of computers connected to some mechanical testing machines in our university lab that requires the use of floppy discs... because the PC is so old it doesn't have workable USB ports. But hey, it works for the purpose of getting data from the machine, why throw it away.
Now that we have opus and av1, I guess we're not far from being able to fit a full movie in vcd resolution on a floppy disk... or perhaps two. Remember divx with dual cd movies where you had to swap the disc :-)
My main desktop will be 10 years old in August. I took it with me as a College frosh. It has a floppy disk drive that I can't recall ever using. XD
I'll into the recycling and reselling of cassette tapes and VHS next.
I feel like I just took a glimpse at retro heaven.
updating infrastructure can take centuries, and I will not be surprised if floppy disk will make a comeback, like 1TB floppy disk etc.
I have 2 personal floppy diskes, and i love them
honestly I wish I had a floppy drive because I found my old games. What the next level? Please insert Disk 7. ha! Sweet memories.
Look on eBay or Amazon u can find something cheap probably
The Railroad industry still uses Floppy 💾 disk plus when the Intercontinental railroad Takes Effect it will use Floppy 💾 disk in the President Lincoln Bering Tunnel Government