The floppy disk, a relic of the 1990s for storing data, still holds up. A 73yearold American who works in the field says he sells about 500 devices a day and reports the business is expanding.
Tom Persky, who lives in California, runs the “Floppy Disk” store. The company works by recycling floppy disks, which are then sold to those who still rely on this technology.
In an interview with Portal, Persky says the equipment is still used in the embroidery and aerospace industries. “If you built an airplane 20 or 30 years ago, even 40 years ago, you would use a floppy disk to get information in and out of that airplane’s avionics,” he says.
“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable. They also have the additional property of not being very hackable,” says Persky.
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He says that in the ’90s he worked in software development for a company that copied the system to floppy disks. After the connection was lost, he began investing in the equipment and says he’s passionate about it.
Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960’s and more than three decades later have fallen out of favor in favor of more efficient data storage solutions.