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Floppies are still used for emergency boots in aging systems which lack support for other bootable media. They can also be used for BIOS updates since most BIOS and firmware programs can still be executed from bootable floppy disks. Furthermore, if a BIOS update fails or becomes corrupted somehow, floppy drives can be used to perform a recovery. The music and theatre industries still use equipment (i.e. synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, sequencers, and lighting consoles) that requires standard floppy disks as a storage medium.