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I recently needed a floppy for an older piece of medical equipment. I first had to call around to 4 different stores where I got the same answer, "You want what? No, we don't carry those." Fortunately I have a brother in law who is IT and he had some stuck in a desk drawer.
I had to dig out a 5.25" floppy *drive* a few years ago to read some data off a disk for a student who was challenging a grade from teh early 90s.... why the admins let him challenge I have no idea, but it was fun reading the data...
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