Sony Signals the End of the Floppy

[CyberKnight]

My PC still has one. Of course, my PC was bought in 2001, so there you go.

How has it lasted so long?!?!

Quite well, actually. I've upgraded the video card twice, added a little bit of memory to it once (not much, though; it's one of the original Pentium 4s that use expensive RDRAM memory), added a DVD burner... but most of it is still original equipment.

Not bad for a Dell.

 

[samsonguy920]

I am sitting here trying to imagine what would fit on those things these days, when back in the day their storage capacity was monumental. I think I still have a few of those sitting around...doubt they are much good anymore. Of course I remember the TRS-80 that used a tape player to store data.
I do have my cane, younglings...one old age joke and I will start aswingin!

 

[Silver Patriot]

Oh wow. People still used those? Ah well. RIP Floppy disk, you had a good and surprisingly long life.

I want to see 10 years from now when they do thoes decade things. "2010 the year floppies died . . . yes, you read that right."

 

[accountdeletethis]

I've still got a bunch of floppys lying in a box in my room somewhere. Gotta check out what's on them - one never knows what hillarious gems might be on them. It's like borrowing a VCR and checking what's on fifteen year old tapes

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

I didn't even know they were still being made. I haven't used a floppy in over five years.

 

[Crops]

I remember saving an essay to a floppy disk at home, and having my teacher look at me funny. Explaining that his laptop only had cd and usb drives.

That's pretty much when I stopped using them. I still own a few I believe, though I haven't had a floppy-drive computer for years.

 

[Enigmers]

They're discontinuing production in 2011, which is about 7 years after everyone stopped using them and about 3 years after everyone forgot about them.

With all the memory cards/USB storage solutions out there I'm not surprised that these things are biting the dust, especially considering how minuscule 1.44MB really is.

 

[JimJamJahar]

Sony Signals the End of the Floppy

I read this title as 'Sony gives free viagra to everyone'

 

[Hippobatman]

Good bye, floppies. I thought I was flashed back to the 90's by the title, but sure as pie you're still here.

Good bye, Commander Keen.
Good bye, Space Commander.
Good bye, Winter Sports

You're missed, but I'll still be nostalgic via DOSbox.

 

[ShadowKirby]

Well, I guess we won't be copying that floppy anymore.

 

[Gilhelmi]

and yet the US Army still uses them for security clearance paper work (facepalm).

 

[noogai18]

Wow... I didn't know they were still being made.

I should've picked up some friends for the Silent Service II and Space Quest III 3.5" floppies I've still got. My first games (those two) were on floppies, and I'll probably keep them 'til I die.

RIP.

 

[duchaked]

haha this is where I kid "what's a floppy?"

but nowadays it's more like "what's a VHS?" =[ need to convert those old family videos to dvd sometime soon

 

[Plurralbles]

I remember having to buy a uSB floppy drive because I had stuff still on my old floppies. That was annoying. I"m glad we got to USB and having flash drives at 8 gigs+

 

[300lb. Samoan]

I always knew there would be a place for the floppy disk until they found something as portable, malleable and ubiquitous (and cheap.) Now that we have USB flash drives, that time is over.

Found one of these in my cousin's basement tonight, wondered for a second what was on it. Then quickly forgot it.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

and yet the US Army still uses them for security clearance paper work (facepalm).

Sure they do. You put one of those in a fireproof box and almost nothing can destroy it. It's more electronically secure, portable and armorable that any other traditional storage media. Flash cards melt, CDs scratch and melt, floppies warp but retain data under high heat. I don't have a source for any of this but... prove me wrong!

 

[Georgie_Leech]

Wait, didn't flash drives make the things obselete in every single possible way? Why are they still around at all?

 

[300lb. Samoan]

Wow... I didn't know they were still being made.

I should've picked up some friends for the Silent Service II and Space Quest III 3.5" floppies I've still got. My first games (those two) were on floppies, and I'll probably keep them 'til I die.

RIP.

I've still got a big basket of Apple II 5.25"s that I played when I was young. Lots of Sticky Bear [/nostalgia]

 

[Galad]

I wonder if the last floppy disk is gonna end up in a museum somewhere..

 

[Pilkingtube]

Wow, so it's official huh? *single tear*
I remember the ol' floppy! I was really weirded out when I bought a comoptuer without a floppy drive and with some 13-in-1 card reader in the same slot instead, thought "That'll never catch on, wonder if I can replace it.."
oh well, goodbye random things I kept on trippy green translucent floppy disks, I shall miss you

Also 1.44mb was pretty good back in the 90's, don't be a dick, it's like somebody 30 years from now saying "Pff, their HDDs only held 2TB storage? That's hardly enough for my holographic porn collection, HDDs sucked huh?"