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? " ...
"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.
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.
There are countries like Japan that still use floppies in their
government, so small market is still there.
I wonder if that's still true.
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.
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