I can buy film for my 93 year old Kodak Brownie at Annapolis Mall. I can't get memory cards for my Kodak Digital Science DC3800 or my Sony MVC-FD91 anywhere but online, and used at that for the Kodak.
The Sony will still have new memory cards and batteries produced as long as Sony sticks to the InfoLithium concept, and *someone* has a use for floppy disks.
This is what I call an Obsolesence Gap: A gap in time between the technology being a going concern and supported by the infrastructure of its industry, and the time it's practical, or even possible, to do at home with readily sourced materials.
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