Say goodbye to the 3.5 inch floppy disk

[ssj6akshat]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/storage/...disk-40088753/

They still sell floppy disks?

[lisati]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/storage/...disk-40088753/

They still sell floppy disks?

I spotted some in a couple of local shops a few months ago. And yes, I have a seldom used USB floppy drive. I've even got a couple of 5.25" drives in a cupboard somewhere.

[Grenage]

You'd be surprised how frequently they are used in some places.

[P4man]

Sony saw its Japanese sales of floppies decline from a record 47 million disks in fiscal 2002 to 12 million in fiscal 2009.

Not quite dead yet!

[Khakilang]

Well I still have an old computer that has a floppy drive and a software to format it. Although I never use it just there to fill in the drive space.

[ssj6akshat]

what made me lol more that they sold 12 million floppies!
ROFL

[ssj6akshat]

Well I still have an old computer that has a floppy drive and a software to format it. Although I never use it just there to fill in the drive space.

I too have a floppy drive on the computer I am using but yeah I am now using USB storage Devices(I skipped the CD era altogether,was still using floppies to share data then)

[Grenage]

It's not that surprising (or funny).

There are a ton of legacy systems that still use them.

[lisati]

It's not that surprising (or funny).

There are a ton of legacy systems that still use them.

As well as the previously mentioned USB device my old desktop still has a 3.5" floppy drive, useful for booting with Smart Boot Manager when a bootable CD doesn't boot for some reason, even though the BIOS supposedly supports boot from CD.

[Grenage]

That said, I swear they made better disks back in the 80s/90s; these days they seem to go bad after a few uses. Either that, or drives are poorer quality.