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> Crazy to think that now there's just one disk supplier hanging on to a bulk order of floppies, supplying the whole world.

“The last person standing” is self-proclaimed, and even on quick search [0] there are other floppy disk makers, just not in the US and not answering magazine interviews. In particular Hitachi-Maxxel was outsourcing floppy disk to a chinese maker, and I’d expect that company to still be producing, but just not to the international market.

[0] https://www.indiamart.com/gagan-polymers/



I could buy 3.5" floppies in a Japanese supermarket just a few years ago. Heck, I could buy cassette tape as well.. and I did! :-)




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