<html><body><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" class="1"><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Among other "transition" devices, the HxC Floppy Emulators "are used in very differents environnements and situations since years now. The HxC Floppy Emulator replaces the floppy disk drive of lots of industrial machines, keyboards/samplers and old computers".</span><br></div><div><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" lang="fr"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://hxc2001.com/showroom/?fbclid=IwAR2FQVLIhn8-_QIQ3RHk5SfxyJveiOE_oU6EiQGkKnOnzt5VH7wGUKSbDOo" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://hxc2001.com/showroom/?fbclid=IwAR2FQVLIhn8-_QIQ3RHk5SfxyJveiOE_oU6EiQGkKnOnzt5VH7wGUKSbDOo" data-mce-tabindex="0">https://hxc2001.com/showroom/</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Another application, for flight simulators: </span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><a href="https://hxc2001.com/showroom/HxC_Floppy_Emulator_Airplane_Dataloader.html">https://hxc2001.com/showroom/HxC_Floppy_Emulator_Airplane_Dataloader.html</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Best,</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"James A Hodges" <james.hodges@rutgers.edu><br><b>Cc: </b>"members" <members@sigcis.org><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Vendredi 5 Novembre 2021 16:08:22<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Current use of floppy disks<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr">Perhaps also not what the journalist is looking to hear, but there are still some vintage music production tools (ie samplers and synthesizers) that use floppy disk storage. The Yamaha DX7 II FD synth and Akai s950 sampler are classic machines that still get used in studios today, and the Roland SP-808 sampler even uses ancient 100mb Zip Disks for storage! However, many of these machines, if they're still in use, have been updated to use new forms of storage or data transfer in place of the old floppy drives. This means that there is an interesting little cottage industry of people working to enable such conversions via new software and hardware.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 6:28 AM McMillan, William W <<a href="mailto:william.mcmillan@cuaa.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">william.mcmillan@cuaa.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb( 204 , 204 , 204 );padding-left:1ex">
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Interesting question, Martin!<br>
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There are plenty of us who have old files on floppy disks. I have a USB-connected floppy drive handy to read these if and when I want to.</div>
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Some old Boeing 747s still use floppies:</div>
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There are probably other dedicated real-time security and control systems in low-tech settings that still use floppies.<br>
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Hobbyists and old-gear aficionados, including nostalgic gamers, still use them. (I have an old Windows 7 computer, with floppy drive, disconnected from the Internet, which I use just for computer programming.)</div>
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Some Boeing 747s still use 3.5-inch floppy disks to load updated navigational databases. That sounds crazy, but it isn't.</div>
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<div>today, I got a request by a German journalist asking about current uses of floppy disks. Are they still is use somewhere? Are there still users, for example power plants, airlines, banks or so who are using floppy disks? If so, why do they do
that? I am sure that you can address this question, that was forwarded to me by Daniela Zetti, way better than I could. My first thought were computer hobbyists who are working with old computers and presenting them at Vintage Computing Festivals – cool stuff,
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