The situation is that there is one company with a stockpile of now 15 year old floppies (when they were last manufactured in 2011) and whatever shows up on auction sites. There was someone experimenting with making their own a few months back but for the sake of legacy system presentation it would be good to get real floppies again. Yes emulators exist but not all legacy devices are capable of using them and nostalgia wants the real thing. Enthusiasts kept audio cassettes in production, the same thing needs to happen with floppies (and a lot of other legacy tech too).
Well then break open your piggy bank and fund a new factory. That's the only way it's going to happen. There are fewer and fewer uses for them every year. It is, how the kids say, "not a growth industry". If it were economically viable someone would have kept or bought a factory to keep it running.
Works well for the rest of the world. Like the metric system, and everything else that is not retarded.
This. Raise prices by 30% across the board and use it to pay them. Then everyone will be happy.
Hint: if the value of something hinges on the fact that the factory only goes so fast, you might not want to bet the retirement on them not spinning up another factory.
So I shouldn't be buying collectable DRAM modules right now??
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