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ok idfk where to post this. but uh. i guess here its good because floppies are pretty much only used for retro tech these days??? anyways WHY IS THIS SO SATISFYING...

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[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

@TwoBeeSan @dosuser123456 Where does one even buy floppies any more?

[–] alleycat@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

https://www.floppydisk.com/

There seems to be still plenty of refurbs and "new old stock" on the market.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

In Japan, convenience stores sold packs of blank floppy diskettes up until around 2015.

Also remember seeing VHS, Hi-8, audio cassette, DAT, mini-DV, MiniDisc… You can still buy a short spindle of CD-Rs and individual DVD+Rs.

[–] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

i dont buy em i just get em off the old floppy box in the basement (theres some wing commander disks in there i used to grab to play the game on the homebox back when it was a 2001 tower and not a 2020 laptop)