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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

I read an article fairly recently stating that the last manufacturer of the 3.5 has stopped production back in 2011, and the 5.25 was over 5 years before that.

But supposedly there's a little business called Athana that still makes them, along with other really old and way out of date media's. Even 8" floppies.