The Floppy is Dead...

[lostcarpark]

There was a time when those words would strike fear into the heart of every computer user: lost files, hours of work down the drain, when did I last back up?

But not today. Today PC World have announced that they are going to stop stocking floppies when current supplies run out (which may take quite some time). They probably didn't need to bother, as most PC users haven't bought a disk in years, and there probably quite a few who wonder what that rather odd slot in the front of their PC is for.

But still, I will miss the contrary old buggers. Even now, there are plenty of times when they get you out of a hole. It can still be quite useful to boot up DOS from floppy to run some low-level diagnostics.

But I guess we must move with the times.

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[wag-9393.livejournal.com]

I used to have an 8inch floppy pinned on my wall (oo err missus), it was from a datapoint data entry terminal and had 180K capacity. I now have my eye on a 16Gb pen drive...