Perkins: When people ask me: "Why are you into floppy disks today?" the answer is: "Because I forgot to get out of the business." Everybody else in the world looked at the future and came to the conclusion that this was a dying industry. Q: Where does this focus on floppy disks come from? Why not work with another medium.? My business, which used to be 90% CD and DVD duplication, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. So here I am, a small company with a floppy disk inventory, and I find myself to be a worldwide supplier of this product. Why would you try to find me, when you could just buy disks off the shelf? But then these larger companies stopped carrying them or went out of business and people came to us. You could still go down to any office supply store, or any computer store to buy them. I only started selling blank copies organically over time. Duplicating disks in the 1980s and early 1990s was as good as printing money. Not in a million years did I think I would ever sell blank floppy disks. Perkins: I was actually in the floppy disk duplication business. All of this makes a key player in the small yet profitable contemporary floppy scene. Other services include disk transfers, a recycling program, and selling used and/or broken floppy disks to artists around the world. He is the time-honored founder of, a US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy disks. They've just published a fascinating interview with Tom Persky, who calls himself "the last man standing in the floppy disk business." Eye on Design is the official blog of the US-based professional graphic design organization AIGA.
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