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Every sizable manufacturer of floppy disks has exited the market. There are no more (major) suppliers for the tech. They’ve likely been depending on a dwindling supply of functional disks; if at some point they find themselves without enough working disks to operate the system, they will indeed be screwed.

There’s also the chance that they take a disk that’s on the verge of failure, plug it into the system, and some corrupted commands get loaded into the system. That could easily result in a “catastrophic failure”.

Floppy disks are not reliable or cheap. They physically degrade over time, and at this point are nowhere near cheap for “new” disks.




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