Here is Ipcas contact information link.

They have lots of contacts via phone, FAX, and email. I would try giving others a call.

In addition, here is PLR Electronics contact information.

AND

Datex contact information too.

I disagree with your analysis that floppy emulators are “not needed in any form at all.”

In the industrial sector, there are many machines that output hundreds of thousands of dollars of production each and every month. The machines are still very good for doing production, however, the operating system is being loaded from floppy disk drives that are still loaded from either 5.25 or 3.5 inch floppy disks. Many of the manufacturers are no longer in business to support the equipment, and the best thing would be to put a solid state floppy disk drive emulator to do away with the old floppy drives. It is not just about the floppy drives but the medium itself is no longer viable. The software disks are going bad, and even if you get another used floppy drive, the floppy disks are scratched to the point that eventually the machine will become a big boat anchor.

However, if the information is able to be stored on say a flash drive or USB drive, through a floppy disk drive emulator, the equipment could be keep running for the long haul.

So, quit thinking on a small PC scale, and think about all the machinery that is built to run from floppies that is still in production today. Manufacturers can not afford to spend a half a million dollars on a brand new machine.

Has a floppy emulator with either connectivity to another computer over usb (running a kind of floppy-server), or connectivity to a memory-card; like a floppy-emulator with a memory card instead of a usb-stick.

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Greets,
walterr