2026-04-14 09:11 UTC
@Pepijn
That sounds vaguely familiar.
Back in the mid 2010's my boss had a minor panic when one of the main Japanese manufacturers announced the cessation of blank 3.5" floppy disk production. The DOS based CNC software we used wrote directly to floppys.
The solution was elegant.
Physically remove the floppy and remap the A: drive to a C:\ folder. One tech then wrote a Delphi program to copy the CNC code across the network to the industrial machines that used the code.
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@Pepijn@mastodon.online 2026-04-14 09:14
@raymierussell Nice. And much more practical as well :) To be fair: I think the world will never run out of new-old-stock of these disks. There's SOOOO MUCH of it available.
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@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot 2026-04-14 09:19
@raymierussell @Pepijn I loved Delphi!