RIP floppy

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6314251.stm

The_JinJ

That's been coming for a long time - prices of floppies gradually rising and getting harder to get...a sad day indeed

Nickygoat

Al_Mac wrote:

That's why the daughers lap top floppy has given up the ghost then. I've got about 20 and no way to use them

For £20 buy an external drive here (Watch out for the session ID)

Better, or cheaper, is to get them to a machine with a floppy drive and transfer all the info to a USB key.

I'm glad that the floppy is dead but I run Macs so I haven't bothered with them since about 1999 - I didn't realise people used them anymore :rotfl:

startrekker

Thought it died years ago.........along with video players,tape recorders, crt monitors, normal tvs and the rest.....

stevemcol

I could only dream of owning a floppy drive whilst fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to get my games to load up.
Doesn't seem that long ago

martinjones_3

I have hated these since they were invented! Leave them anywhere near anything magnetic and you've lost your work. They are slow, small capacity and vunerable to data loss. RIP

stevemcol

martinjones wrote:

I have hated these since they were invented! Leave them anywhere near anything magnetic and you've lost your work. They are slow, small capacity and vunerable to data loss. RIP

So when they were invented, what were you comparing them to that was faster, higher capacity and less vulnerable to data loss?

banger9365

it a same about floppy put we still need them eg load raid drivers when reinstalling xp

BillScarab

banger9365 wrote:

it a same about floppy put we still need them eg load raid drivers when reinstalling xp

so do I if I ever need to rebuild my PC, can't think of anything else I've ever used mine for on the PC I've got now. I'm still using a CRT monitor too (good picture quality so why change it?). I even still have a 4:3 ratio CRT telly.

As someone else said, after loading stuff from cassette tapes, floppies were a godsend. Mind you I dread to think how much the Plus 3 floppy drive I bought for my electron cost!

energy80s

Floppy disks are very useful for trying to get a dead computer to boot. I have many versions and still use a W98 startup disc to set up PC's to this very day. A lot of PCs won't boot from USB.

Avoriaz

I thought it was Viagra that heralded the demise of the floppy.