So farewell then, floppies?

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ps238principal points out that Sony are going to stop manufacturing 3.5" floppies in Japan next year - since they have 70% of the Japanese market and don't export them any more that may mean the end for this type of data storage - it's just a lot more expensive to manufacture than a CD-R or DVD-R, and with capacity so limited and most new computers lacking the drives there's just no point in carrying on.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20003360-92.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Since I haven't used one in at least 2-3 years I'm not going to worry too much about it!

Comments

[draconin.livejournal.com]

Yah, end of an era but I'm not going to lose sleep over it or miss them, any more than did 5 1/4" floppies. I transferred anything I still had on them to CD/DVD ages ago. The CD/DVDs are more reliable anyway (although I think a lot of people have an exaggerated idea of just how long they'll last!).