I've still got a brand new box of floppies in my desk as we've still got test equipment that has floppy drives. The equipment is still top notch and modifying i

I've still got a brand new box of floppies in my desk as we've still got test equipment that has floppy drives. The equipment is still top notch and modifying it to swap in a USB floppy emulator will ruin the calibration so I just keep my USB floppy drive and a well used floppy in my bag. Despite the outdated media format, our equipment is future proof. The files and formats they all use are plain text files with a somewhat standardized data format along with PNG or GIF image formats. In addition, the equipment all have GPIB interfaces which are kind of a pain to use but they all use the same API and there's a very good chance you can swap two boxes decades apart and still use the same commands to get the same measurements. When I started my career, I was a little upset at being given such outdated looking equipment (1990s desktop white, floppy drives, AT keyboard connectors, 10base2 Ethernet!) but shortly realized that care was taken to ensure that no matter how old the equipment looks, data can still be pulled into a modern computer in file formats that will never be outdated.