![]() Why would you try to find me, when you could just buy disks off the shelf? But then these larger companies stopped carrying them or went out of business and people came to us. You could still go down to any office supply store, or any computer store to buy them. I only started selling blank copies organically over time. Duplicating disks in the 1980s and early 1990s was as good as printing money. Not in a million years did I think I would ever sell blank floppy disks. ![]() Were you already selling floppy disks at the time?Ģ0 years ago I was actually in the floppy disk duplication business. This went totally against my principles, but thankfully my wife is much smarter than I am. I told my wife I would not participate in this kind of cybercrime, but she took out a cheque-book and got the domain name instantly. ![]() One day somebody contacted me and asked if I wanted to buy the domain for $1,000. ![]() At the time we believed that the Internet should be free and that cybersquatting was a crime. Nice to meet you too! I think it happened during the early days of the Internet, around 1990. Let’s start with the obvious: how did you end up with the domain for ? We’d love to know a little more about your company. Hi Tom, it’s great to finally meet the founder of. ![]() What has changed in this era, and what remains the same? Tom Persky of. While putting together the manuscript for our new book, Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, we met with Tom to discuss the current state of the floppy disk industry and the perks and challenges of running a business like his in the 2020s. All of this makes a key player in the small yet profitable contemporary floppy scene. Other services include disk transfers, a recycling program, and selling used and/or broken floppy disks to artists around the world. Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder of, a US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy disks. This interview was originally published in Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, a new book published by Onomatopee. ![]()
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