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               The Last Man Standing in the Floppy Disk Business

   Adam Engst

   Since late January, TidBITS Talkers have been [1]reminiscing about
   floppy disks and other storage media of yesteryear. It has been a
   lovely conversation, with links to articles about groups just now
   moving away from floppies ([2]Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and
   Industry) and others that continue to rely on them ([3]San Francisco's
   subway).

   David Silbey just contributed a link to a must-read interview with the
   guy who is singlehandedly keeping many of the world's floppy disk-based
   systems going. In a September 2022 post in the AIGA Eye on Design
   newsletter, [4]Niek Hilkmann & Thomas Walskaar write:

     Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed 'last man standing in the floppy
     disk business.' He is the time-honored founder of [5]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 [6]floppydisk.com a key player in the small
     yet profitable contemporary floppy scene.

   If you want to continue down the floppy disk rabbit hole, the interview
   comes from a book called [7]Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives
   of a Flexible Medium (it's more readily and inexpensively [8]available
   from Amazon for those in the US).

   [9]Read original article

References

   1. https://talk.tidbits.com/t/remember-floppy-disks/26579?u=ace
   2. https://japantoday.com/category/national/japanese-government%E2%80%99s-ministry-of-economy-trade-and-industry-finally-stops-using-floppy-disks
   3. https://sfstandard.com/2023/02/02/sfs-market-street-subway-runs-on-reagan-era-floppy-disks/
   4. https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/
   5. https://www.floppydisk.com/
   6. https://www.floppydisk.com/
   7. https://www.onomatopee.net/product/floppy-disk-fever/
   8. https://www.amazon.com/dp/9493148866/?tag=tidbitselectro00
   9. https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

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