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Still kind of an expensive solution to things you can buy for cheap, and there are always people who don't know or don't have access to those handful of companies.
given the failure rates of old floppies and the speed at which they cost of buying them is increasing, it won't be long before this is the cheaper solution. it's an old, slow and inefficient technology which always was going to need to be transitioned away from and the article pitches it as a kind of crisis, but as these transitions go it seems like a fairly stable and successful one?
USB-Floppy emulators from GOTEK are available for as cheap as £15 on AliExpress. They're not certified for aviation use, of course, but for everything else they're awesome. Old computers, oscilloscopes, etc.