The end for Floppy Disks
2007-01-30 01:54 PM | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | technology
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With the unrelenting pace of change in technology, Dixon's a leading electronic retailer has said that it would no longer sell floppy disks when its stocks ran out. Nearly 98% of new computers now no longer have a facility for floppy disks. The CD could also be soon on the way out as people increasingly switch to memory sticks which are capable of storing upto 8 gigabytes; more than 6,000 times that of a floppy disk.
It makes me very slightly nostalgic for my very first computer a BBC 32K.
in those days we didn't even have disks but we had to use a casetter players. It used to take about 5 mins to load Chuckie Egg, Pac Man and Bat 'n Ball. - Happy Days!
I never understood why they were called "floppy" disks because they weren't floppy. If you were brought up in the era of BBC's and ZX Spectrum you may remember the big floppy disks about 8" in diameter, they were floppy but didn't seem to last very long. Anyway we live in the digital age and I'm sure floppy disks will soon be assigned to the museum of deceased technological objects.
The first floppy, an 8in plastic disk coated with magnetic iron oxide, was introduced in 1971 by IBM. Sony introduced 3.5 in disks in 1981.
Floppy disks ejected as demand slumps AT Daily Telegraph
