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 >> >> -- >> Jim Brain >> br...@jbrain.com >> www.jbrain.com >>
