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abruzzi on May 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: People who won't give up floppy disks

Like the musician in the story, I have many synthesizers with floppy drives. I love the synth, but not the floppies. I keep floppies around because I have to in order to keep the synth operable, but I am slowly changing the floppies out of floppy emulators. At $100 a pop it’s slow going.

porkbeer on May 14, 2024 [–]

Many of that era might do better with sysex dumps for most of the things floppies do. Still kinda slow but no media to futz with.

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