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Date:      Sun, 3 Dec 2017 10:17:34 -0700
From:      Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support
Message-ID:  <A189DF36-36BB-4ECF-9B76-99585205EE5F@bluestop.org>
In-Reply-To: <201712031655.vB3GtIME041023@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201712031655.vB3GtIME041023@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Dec 3, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr=
.net> wrote:

> That being said, even an old crusty fart like me only has had to deal
> with a 1.44 MB floppy in nearly a year, but I was very glad that I COULD
> deal with it using my prefered OS.

It looks like some software licensing still used them as recently as 2014 (I=
 personally had to use floppy disks at work back in 2009 to transfer our FLE=
Xlm licenses): https://docops.ca.com/ca-plex/7-2-1/en/using/how-to-use-group=
-model-and-local-model-licensing-in-ca-plex/how-to-make-a-floppy-disk-licens=
e-transfer

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Rebecca Cran=



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