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Ask HN: Who still uses floppy disks?

2 points by behnamoh ↗ HN
I was pleasantly surprised to see tens of floppy disk readers on Amazon (see [0]). When I was a child, I used to play with them a lot and this brings back memories. But I'm also surprised there's still a market for floppies.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=floppy+disk+reader+mac&rh=n%3A172282%2Cp_72%3A1248879011&dc&ds=v1%3APmNFmDqlMMOqWNf3WLWPWFZ%2FvDhdHHUCKuCnRICA0bc&rnid=1248877011&ref=sr_nr_p_72_1

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evilllkint
You don't want to know how many missiles systems out there still run on floppies.
ekimehtor
I have a box with a 3 1/2 inch floppy desk and a removable hard drive bay, that I use for low levelling 40 and 80 gig IDE hard drives. It has a Windows 98 boot image and maxlLF. EXE on the floppy. I also have an old XP system collecting dust with a 5 1/4, that I keep around for running 16 bit Apps that don't play nice with Doss box.