Bye-bye Mr. Floppy!

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No, not that!

Engage Nerd-Mode…

Another milestone today, as Sony, the last remaining manufacturer of floppy-disks, announces it will stop production next year.

When I first got into computers back in the late 80s, these disks held 700k of data – a massive amount, and it was all that was needed. A box of 10 lasted forever! Then, they launched a 1.44 Mb version – astounding!! Then they made them in different colours.

Compare all that with storage today and we have, for the desktop, 2Tb drives – a 1 000 000 times the capacity. For the mobile phone, we have 32Gb microSD cards – 32 000 times the capacity and a 50th of the size – just amazing!!!

Other Floppy-disk info from around the ‘net

  1. Sony to end floppy disk production (macworld.com)
  2. Stick a fork in floppies – they’re done (go.theregister.com)
  3. Floppy disk finally killed off by Sony (telegraph.co.uk)
  4. Sony to stop manufacturing Floppy discs after 30 years (crunchgear.com)
  5. Sony to pull plug on floppy disks (cbc.ca)
  6. The once ubiquitous floppy finally being axed by Sony (arstechnica.com)
  7. Sony signals end for floppy disks (news.bbc.co.uk)
  8. Sony Getting Rid of Floppies in Japan (readwriteweb.com)
  9. Sony ends production of 3.5 inch floppy disk (v3.co.uk)
  10. Sony To Stop Producing 3.5 Inch Floppy Disks In Japan (techie-buzz.com)
  11. They still make these? (edibleapple.com)
  12. Sony delivers floppy disk’s last rites (news.cnet.com)
  13. Sony shutting down Japanese floppy disk sales by March 2011, kills a tech dinosaur (engadget.com)

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