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As long as they can still get floppies to replace them as they go bad I don’t see a problem. They’re still being made for things like old geological and industrial equipment and will continue being made for a while.

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bjorney@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They aren’t being made anymore - people are just reselling old hoarded stock

…aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-…

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- TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ohhh, good info! I didn’t realize. Well, that’s gonna suck for a lot of people in a lot of industries sometime soon.
  
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  - rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s demand. Maybe somebody’s going to start making them again. Like with vinyl.
    
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drawerair@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’ll probably be no more diskette makers in the future, so the train operator should stop using diskettes. I did a quick googling.

In January 2024, Japan announced it will no longer require floppy-disk copies of government submissions.

I searched amazon.com. You can buy diskettes there.

I’m assuming the folks doing the upgrade know what they’re doing. Train operation is key, so to be sure, they may need to slowly move away from diskettes and slowly integrate ssds or whatever the replacement will be.

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