Floppy Finally Flops

After 36 years and billions of sales, the floppy disk is to join the video player, cassette deck and film camera on technology’s scrapheap. The 9cm piece of plastic will no longer be available from Britain’s biggest computer retailer. PC World announced last night it would stop selling the disks when stocks ran out. Floppies were once considered among the most vital accessories to computer users and offices worldwide for holding data in an easy-to-store format, which could easily be transferred between PCs.

This isn’t much of a surprise to anyone I’m sure, but I did expect the final nail in the coffin to happen a lot sooner. I don’t remember the last time I had to rely on a floppy disk for anything, except may to install DOS freeware. In the floppies memory, I have to remind people, “Don’t Copy That Floppy!”

Source: Metro.co.uk