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We spoke with the last person standing in the floppy disk business

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Sep 13, 2022, 7:01:02 PM9/13/22
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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?

With the amount of legacy systems still running all over the world, there';s probably decent longevity in this business still.

https://www.osnews.com/story/135285/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/
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