@CC_333
You said it..."they're woefully outdated and rather unreliable"....
If we're to keep using these machine, if my kids want to use these machines when they're my age, then we need to ditch the floppies. Boards can be repaired, caps can be replaced, but when floppies go, they go. 20 years from now, what will we do? If my kids want to play Dark Castle on a Mac Plus in the year 2030, there's no way they're going to run it off a floppy. It's just not going to happen.
You said it..."they're woefully outdated and rather unreliable"....
If we're to keep using these machine, if my kids want to use these machines when they're my age, then we need to ditch the floppies. Boards can be repaired, caps can be replaced, but when floppies go, they go. 20 years from now, what will we do? If my kids want to play Dark Castle on a Mac Plus in the year 2030, there's no way they're going to run it off a floppy. It's just not going to happen.