Thats exactly the solution.  Just keep a few floppies around so that you can 
transfer a saved image back to floppy to be read by the machine that needs it.
Personally, there was so much media manufactured that I think the machines that 
read the media will fail long before we run out of  media.

Wayne


> On Mar 9, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Christopher Zach via cctalk 
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Interesting article but when goteks are 30 a pop on ebay and work on 
> something as wonky as a professional 350, I think it's time to let 5.25 
> floppies go
> 
> I'll get a teac but mainly to convert all my pdp11 floppies to images. 
> 
> Cz
> 
>> On March 9, 2023 7:00:39 PM EST, Jim Brain via cctalk 
>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> https://www.wired.com/story/why-the-floppy-disk-just-wont-die/
>> 
>> Take what you want from the article, but I thought the end paragraph, noting 
>> that Tom Persky of floppydisk.com is 73 and is only planning to handle 
>> things for 5 more years.  After that, he thinks the company will not 
>> transfer to anyone.
>> 
>> Interesting thoughts there.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
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