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		hypercube33 on April 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023) Actually I think they spun off their media business to imation who kept making CDs and floppies

creatonez on April 5, 2024 [–]

The article points out how Imation was eventually bought out just for the trademark, so it sounds like they gave up on the manufacturing / material science and just became like any other floppy disk.

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