I still have a box of floppies for my SGI Indy, which are an amusing side-note in all of this storage shenanigans .. and I also maintain a large Zip and Jaz col

I still have a box of floppies for my SGI Indy, which are an amusing side-note in all of this storage shenanigans .. and I also maintain a large Zip and Jaz collection, among other things. These are all safely being retired because of the efficacy of the HxC drive, which is a device that allows you to emulate physical characteristics of legacy media in a way where grumpy old computers reliant on such mechanisms can get over the storage-decay woes and use .. a USB Stick .. to access its library. As a retro-nerd, with a rather extensive collection of these machines with new school storage solutions, I often am amused at the notion of, for example, a 6502-based machine with 64K of RAM, having an 8-gig storage device attached to it. Literally every bit of software, ever written for such a machine onboard, plus what seems like absolutely infinite future storage .. For old machines, where these floppy mechanisms have perished, the HxC drive is a godsend. I still hope to be able to use the Indy's weird floppies a bit more in the future, though, they're a neat oddity ..