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  • (electronic music)

  • - When I look at a floppy disk today,

  • I look at something that's valuable,

  • and that I used, and yet, when most people look at it,

  • they'll look at it almost as a joke.

  • (phone ringing)

  • Floppydisk.com.

  • I'm the last man standing in the floppy disk business,

  • because I basically forgot to get out of the business.

  • In this office, we're in a time warp.

  • Manufacturing of the diskettes is over,

  • and so all of the diskettes

  • that will be made have been made.

  • I'm desperately trying to acquire

  • as many diskettes as I possibly can.

  • All kinds of disks come flying into our doors.

  • From time to time, a commercial recycler will call me up

  • and say, “Hey, I have somewhere between

  • 35 and 50,000 disks.”

  • We sort them; we run them through

  • a process to erase the information.

  • Once the diskettes are reformatted and relabelled,

  • we're able to resell them.

  • We do sell to the U.S. Government.

  • There are a number of applications that

  • the government has that call for the use of a floppy disk.

  • The old saw is if it ain't broke don't fix it.

  • Most of our business is for commercial and industrial use,

  • whether they be embroidery machines, ATMs,

  • avionics for airplanes, those machines are still around,

  • and they're going to last for quite a few more years.

  • The floppy disk business will not be around forever.

  • No, I won't be around forever either.

  • (laughing)

(electronic music)

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