Rest in peace Floppy disk - Sony to stop production

> sys www a:
> fdisk

I used to play Keen on these all the time!

While I thought floppies became obsolete some time ago, I find it odd to think that they were being produced even after the halt of Poloroid analog instant film (which is thankfully coming back).

LOL, I must be a relic then :P

Oh the days of the 150k one sided single density floppy disks.

sleep well old friend...i remember playing the baddest game ever..."skyroads"

what?.....you can only fit so much on a Bluray!

I still have some whole large boxes filled with old diskettes- Windows 3.0 disks, Mac System 6 and 7 disks, even old Amiga disks.

Ah, Deluxe Paint ...

Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset, ...

Seriously? They should have stopped 10 years ago. I mean, I can't find a cassette tape anymore after all..

I didn't know they were still making floppy disks.

Im calling time of death.

i did love to see these drives come back, but with like 10 tb capacity :P man i feel nostalgic about those days when we didnt have cell phones, u had life at a slower pace .. and was more enjoyable!

i take it the hipsters will save theirs just like they saved their polaroid cameras, classic cool :)

But how will I back up my DVDs now???

Flopped cult.

I will bury mine at sea with my ol' 8 tracks. ( have some of those in a box 2 )
.....I don't have a ship to set on fire...............

Since you can boot from CD's and even flash drives now, the things just aren't of any use.

At best they'd hold maybe a few documents. And while it's kind of a waste to use a full CD on content smaller than 700 megs, the bottom line is that 1.4 megs really isn't enough to do much of anything useful.

They kept making these? I thought these went the way of the dodo years ago...

Umm I have only been in this computer land for a couple of years so can you tell me what a floppy disk is. I thought it was a frisbee . I guess i was wrong.

rest in peace old friend, i played duke on you and doom on you, inserting multiple disks disk 1 disk 2 disk 3 and then disk 4, i rescued my msdos and linux systems thanks to you..