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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>

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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 FLEXlm 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-license-transfer

— 
Rebecca Cran

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