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Work at a retirement place. We get performers through on occasion.
Saw a dude with catalogue of floppies. Dude claimed he got burnt by a usb on occasion so he went back to floppies. I was enraptured.
He reeked of cigarettes and was still a road performer in his 60s
https://www.floppydisk.com/
There seems to be still plenty of refurbs and "new old stock" on the market.
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.
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)
What does a 60-something retirement home road performer store on floppy disks, exactly
His queued mixes i believe.
He would be doing vocals/guitar and play the song without whatever he was going to do via his board
Could be wrong but only conclusion could draw from his bizarre setup
Always ods to see patients using better tech then the carers?
lolwhut
its all fun an games until someone needs to reset their pacemaker!
those pacemaker reset magnets are cool!