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They absolutely do! I write floppies fairly often for some 90s era music sequencers and drum machines.

Music equipment is why I still have floppy drives, as well.

My Yamaha PSR-700 series workstation keyboard uses floppies as its primary memory, and still works fine.

Its replacement, Yamaha PSR-SX700, is coming out in October 2019 at MSRP of $1,999, and is not fundamentally different. (And if I use the 90s version to control Korg Monlogue / Deepmind / etc to get the sounds, then the marginal value of the new instrument goes way down).

So floppies it is.

There are floppy emulators that look electrically like a floppy but take USB or SD memory. Eventually I'll swap in one of these.

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