If the change from floppy to stick required only a purple pill I'd have upgraded years ago!
How sad is it that I used tape drives (both reel to reel and the more convienient 'Phillips' cassette form) in the days before the 5 1/4 inch 'mini' floppy came the media of choice even before the 3 1/2 inch 'micro' floppy? The highschool to which I went had not just one, but THREE computers to which the students had access. We saved our programs on inch wide punch tape on those.