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Re:Japan's washi paper torn by modern life by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:12AM (#20283808)
That's exactly when there appears a market for building CRT's to order and to size, when they become economically viable again. It's like when vinyl pressing and/or cassette tape recording machines were pulled out from storage again.

It's not so much a matter of the art being lost (well, for now), more of things not being economically viable.

There's also a guy somewhere who's stocked up on diskettes and drives, there's still a large amount of devices that rely on them (e.g. in manufacturing, think stuff like weaving patterns and the like)

Re:Japan's washi paper torn by modern life by jpindar on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:40AM (#20284326)
Did floppy drives all have the same interface? I know there were different data formats but were the physical drives all compatible?
Re:Japan's washi paper torn by modern life by dan_hawkins on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:11AM (#20285159)
Pretty much yes - on the lowest level you've just got signals a stepper motor and analog signal from head(s).