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    From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 20 09:11:16 2022
    We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
    by Niek Hilkmann & Thomas Walskaar, September 12th 2022
    - https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

    "Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed "last man standing in the floppy
    disk business." He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a
    US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy
    disks. Other services include disk transfers, a recycling program,
    and selling used and/or broken floppy disks to artists around the
    world. All of this makes floppydisk.com a key player in the small
    yet profitable contemporary floppy scene.

    While putting together the manuscript for our new book, Floppy Disk
    Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, we met with Tom
    to discuss the current state of the floppy disk industry and the
    perks and challenges of running a business like his in the 2020s.
    What has changed in this era, and what remains the same? " ...

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  • From Zachary Fetters@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Mon Sep 19 19:28:50 2022
    On 9/19/22 7:11 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
    We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
    by Niek Hilkmann & Thomas Walskaar, September 12th 2022
    - https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

    "Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed "last man standing in the floppy
    disk business." He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a
    US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy
    disks. Other services include disk transfers, a recycling program,
    and selling used and/or broken floppy disks to artists around the
    world. All of this makes floppydisk.com a key player in the small
    yet profitable contemporary floppy scene.

    While putting together the manuscript for our new book, Floppy Disk
    Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, we met with Tom
    to discuss the current state of the floppy disk industry and the
    perks and challenges of running a business like his in the 2020s.
    What has changed in this era, and what remains the same? " ...

    I think that for as long as retro computer enthusiasts and content
    creators live, Mr. Persky should have plentiful business. We need more
    people like him to help keep the art of software archival alive.

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    Zachary Fetters

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    — +1 (859) 619 - 8587

    — @zachary_fetters on Twitter

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 20 09:53:18 2022
    Am 20. September 2022, um 09:11:16 Uhr schrieb Computer Nerd Kev:

    "Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed "last man standing in the floppy
    disk business." He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a
    US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy
    disks. Other services include disk transfers, a recycling program,
    and selling used and/or broken floppy disks to artists around the
    world. All of this makes floppydisk.com a key player in the small
    yet profitable contemporary floppy scene.

    There are countries like Japan that still use floppies in their
    government, so small market is still there.

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  • From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Tue Sep 20 08:21:17 2022
    On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:53:18 +0200
    Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:
    Am 20. September 2022, um 09:11:16 Uhr schrieb Computer Nerd Kev:

    For reference , interview link is https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

    "Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed "last man standing in the floppy
    disk business." He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a
    US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy
    disks. Other services include disk transfers, a recycling program,
    and selling used and/or broken floppy disks to artists around the
    world. All of this makes floppydisk.com a key player in the small
    yet profitable contemporary floppy scene.

    There are countries like Japan that still use floppies in their
    government, so small market is still there.

    And amazon sells them so there must be still manufacturers although the interview doesn't say. Persky says he uses stock he bought years ago to
    supply floppies.

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  • From scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Tue Sep 20 16:45:52 2022
    Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:
    There are countries like Japan that still use floppies in their
    government, so small market is still there.

    It's funny that you should mention Japan and floppies, as this got posted
    just a week ago:

    https://hackaday.com/2022/09/13/floppy-disk-sings-im-big-in-japan/

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  • From The Real Bev@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 20 11:18:11 2022
    At least a decade ago a friend told us to buy every USR 1200baud modem
    we found at yard sales. They go for a big premium on ebay because some
    older home alarm systems require them to communicate with the security
    company. Never did find any, but we gave him our old ones.

    I wonder if that's still true.

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    Schrodinger's Cake: You can have it AND eat it.
    --Roland Curtis

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 20 21:41:49 2022
    Am Dienstag, 20. September 2022, um 11:18:11 Uhr schrieb The Real Bev:

    I wonder if that's still true.

    There are still devices that use analog phone lines to communicate. I
    am not familiar with alarm systems, but in Germany there are still
    systems in use that require an analog phone line (VoIP is too buggy).

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Wed Sep 21 00:03:24 2022
    not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

    We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
    by Niek Hilkmann & Thomas Walskaar, September 12th 2022
    - https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

    "Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed "last man standing in the floppy
    disk business.
    [snip]

    Digressing substantially here, you may have missed that there's a
    similar situation in the match business. All the match companies in
    North America -- the brands that you grew up with -- have either closed
    or sold out to the one remaing match manufacturer, D. D. Bean [1] in the
    little town of Jaffrey, NH.

    First butane lighters and then precipitous decline in smoking didto
    matches what solid state media and the internet have done to floppies.

    [1] NOT L. L. Bean

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    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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