To me an interesting piece is the systemd / Linux references. The protocol to talk to floppy drives is not all that complex. If battery life is a concern, dedic

To me an interesting piece is the systemd / Linux references. The protocol to talk to floppy drives is not all that complex. If battery life is a concern, dedicated embedded code (not using Linux) seems likes a better option and not all that much more difficult to implement. Then again, I suppose embedded Linux keeps getting lighter / better. That requirement strikes me as classic non-/semi-technical product owner trying to suggest to the engineers how to do their job. As for people using floppy disks in 2013... actually not surprised at all. They have a little bit of security through obscurity now and they can be easily cleared with a magnet and some scissors or open flame. And as another poster pointed out, it might be for legacy systems like industrial control.