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Floppy Disks Survive — Thanks to One 73-Year-Old’s Business

“Floppy disks” are two words triggering long-ago memories for those who remember the way things were. Floppy disks were the primary storage mechanism for how data was backed up and shared from the world’s very first home computers starting more than 40 years ago.

“Not in a million years did I think I would ever sell blank floppy disks,” he tells the book’s authors.

Yet while 90% of his business used to be duplicating CDs and DVDs, now 90% of his business is selling blank floppy disks.

Floppy disks were being used for everything from commercial aviation to ATM machines, and he’d also sold disks to the U.S. government.