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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...th-floppy-diskTHE REIGN of the floppy disk is formally over, with Sony saying that it will discontinue domestic sales of its 3.5-inch floppy disks at the end of the year.
It should be no real surprise, since the technology has been a dead man walking for years and it has been increasingly hard to find a PC with a floppy drive installed.
Sony has been propping up the floppy disk data storage format and owns a 70 per cent share of the terminally ill market. The floppy has been killed off by the spread of more compact and larger capacity storage devices such as USB flash drives. Other manufacturers have already pulled out of the market.
Sony was the first into the global floppy disk market, launching the world's first 3.5-inch floppy disks in 1981. The devices spread widely as a storage medium for personal computers and word processors.
Manufacturers made a bomb out of the technology, reaching a peak of 47 million units in fiscal 2002. The rise of the CD drive, closely followed by DVD and USB flash drives, knocked out the floppy disk completely.
There were only 12 million floppy disk drive units sold last year and most them were in India and other developing economies. µ
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2010-04-27 18:57 #1Yoshi P
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Sony announces the death of the Floppy Disk.
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2010-04-27 19:05 #2Falcom is better than SE. Change my mind.
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Wait... Sony still made those?
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2010-04-27 19:17 #3RIDE ARMOR
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I cant recall the last time I had to use a floppy disk, but one of my professors still has all his PowerPoint presentations on floppy disks.
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2010-04-27 19:22 #4I Am, Who I Am.
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I use them a lot still, some older PCs, OSs and applications dont have/support USB/CDs. While I dont think many really use them as storage any more these days. You can still use them for recovery purposes.
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2010-04-27 19:28 #5blax n gunz
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I don't keep around a lot of hardware that doesn't let you boot from CD/network, so meh. I know I have some old data lying around on floppies still but Sony pulling out of the market just means that a floppy drive will go up in price from 5 bucks to 10 bucks.
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2010-04-27 19:37 #6Sandworm Swallows
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I havn't even seen one of those in years.
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2010-04-27 19:41 #7KirbGuest
Damn, I wasn't aware they were still producing them. Are they still making zip disks?
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2010-04-27 19:42 #8BEAHCAT
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I saw some zip disks on sale at staples, doing my hunt for Minidisc's lol
Originally Posted by Kirb
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2010-04-28 10:20 #9God I miss Minidiscs. FUCK. Originally Posted by jmcgarrell
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2010-04-28 10:23 #10If I screw up again Im gone forever.
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How am I going to play Jazz Jackrabbit now?!
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2010-04-28 10:32 #11Resident Moogle
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USB Floppy Drive? Originally Posted by Silentleroy
That or just download a copy from some abandonware site for any oldies you still got left on the floppies.
