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Last place on Earth that still sells floppies...

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 12:19 am
by FlyingPenguin

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:28 pm
by Losbot
Holy crap. They still sell the 5-1/4" floppies.

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:52 pm
by Executioner
I still have some 3 1/2 floppies, but have a USB 3 1/2 drive. Haven't used it in several years. Who would still need these?

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:03 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Mainly companies with machines controlled by old PCs I would guess.

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:58 pm
by Pugsley
Old CNC machines still use them. Some even require custom formats too.

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 9:32 am
by GuardianAsher
FlyingPenguin wrote:Mainly companies with machines controlled by old PCs I would guess.
Pugsley wrote:Old CNC machines still use them. Some even require custom formats too.
Exactly this. I have a stash of boxes of new floppy disks for some of the machines where I work. All of their programming still has to be loaded using CSV files and floppy disks.