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i wonder how hard it would be to make a new floppy disk today

you certainly wouldn't be able to do a homemade 3½" disk, the mechanisms and hard plastic would be hard to work with

but a 5¼" disk might be possible, if you can figure out a way to get a good magnetic coating on a sheet of mylar or kapton or something
-F

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