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[-] st3ph3n@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Lots of those floppy drives in industrial and lab applications (as well as the retro computing enthusiast space) are being replaced by things like GoTek devices, which are essentially floppy emulators with flash memory.

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In some places, yes. But many are still not doing the upgrade as it would require technical person to do so, provide tech support, etc. All of that costs money. Whole industry is becoming very specialized place. Siemens still sells laptops with DB9 and other serial connectors just so you can access and program PLCs. And new USB based adapters to serial simply don't work. Sometimes they do, but most of the time they have issues with these specialized devices.

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