In more demand than the actual floppies at this point in time are the drives and drive mechanisms that can read and write to them.

Those old sequencing keyboards that are loved by many are often sent to repair centers because the thing won't work with the floppies anymore. Many folks have scads of sequences, their time and energy, stored only on the floppies and are often rather desperate to be able to load the files into the keyboard and at least get it to play the sequence back long enough to transfer to PC, Mac or whatever.

The fix usually involves having to replace the old style floppy drive in the keyboard.

And there isn't any mfr still making these, so the cure is for the technician to try to find a used one of the right type, format, power needs, interface, etc. to replace the old drive.

Don't toss the old floppy drive, its internals may be worth a bit to someone else...


--Mac

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