The Floppy Disk Production Has Stopped!

I thought they stopped awhile ago.

Further proof that I am old. :(

Further proof that I am old. :(

entropyecho

Is sony really the only company that was still manufacturing these things?

Further proof that I am old. :(

entropyecho

God Floppy Discs are awesome!

I don't know anyone who still has a floppy drive, so no big surprise. I remember the very first time I got a computer with a CD drive, and how it seemed so mystical and new; now, even CDs are rather showing their age.

In 30 years, these things will be worth $50 each on Ebay.

About time! They were slow, loud, and the very little data could be stored on them. The last time I used a floppy disk was in 2002.

I don't know anyone who still has a floppy drive, so no big surprise.

GabuEx

Ummm... I have a floppy drive in my computer and actually use it for a third backup on a regular basis! :)

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Further proof that I am old. :(

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Further proof that I am old. :(

Pirate700

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Further proof that I am old. :(

Pirate700

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Further proof that I am old. :(

mattbbpl

That machine came with a DB2 book of which the first line began, "A few years ago when computers were invented..."

I still have the book for novelty purposes, as it was printed just a few years prior to when my dad began his career as a Systems Software Specialist.

Ummm.... /rambling

End of an era ;____;

Wait... they were still making those?!

[QUOTE="mattbbpl"][QUOTE="Pirate700"]Hell I still remember using the giant floppy disks. :lol:

That machine came with a DB2 book of which the first line began, "A few years ago when computers were invented..."

I still have the book for novelty purposes, as it was printed just a few years prior to when my dad began his career as a Systems Software Specialist.

Ummm.... /rambling

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Further proof that I am old. :(

Pirate700

oh, you mean the ones that were, you know....actually floppy? lol

Awesome. I cant believe my supervisor handed me one of these to store my project into.

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Further proof that I am old. :(

mrbojangles25

oh, you mean the ones that were, you know....actually floppy? lol

Good night sweet prince.

Damn, I was hoping Sony's next game console would use floppies. raven_squad

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Further proof that I am old. :(

Pirate700

i never used a floppy disc but i did use a regular hard disc-the hard type that looked like floppy but arent

their smaller ones

but ne how my pc dont have a slot for it ne wayexcept the one i have down stairs but who needs them

this wasnt the sad day for me,

now if they stopped production of vhs blanks ,

then talk to me as i still use my vcr etc

Ok, if you've have too many old floppy disks that unused ones, you can make it as the creative items like this:

Ok, if you've have too many old floppy disks that unused ones, you can make it as the creative items like this:

amirzaim

Ok, if you've have too many old floppy disks that unused ones, you can make it as the creative items like this

*pic*amirzaim

Oh thats so awesome. I must have one!

I actually still used floppies up until I got my laptop two years ago. XP needed them if you had a SATA drive because MS never thought to include SATA drivers with the XP disc, so you needed to insert a floppy with the drivers on them so that the Windows installer could find your HDD.

Anyway, I'm not surprised that floppies are dead now. The USB thumbdrive was pretty much the nail in the floppy coffin. Floppies still got some use because they were convenient to take around (didn't have to worry about scratches/smudges, they were rewritable, and had quick read/write times unlike discs). USB drives took all those benefits and added to them with the fact that you could put them on your keychain, put encryption on them, and not to mention their huge sizes (we're up to at least 64GB thumbdrives last I checked). Floppies were getting way too old though. At 2.54MB they aren't even large enough to hold large .jpg files. They were pretty much the last remnant we had left of a time when HDDs were 256MB in size (I actually still own a few of those lol).

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Further proof that I am old. :(

entropyecho

I used one of these Friday at work.

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solidruss

I am obligated to post this:

solidruss

I've used them. They were pretty unreliable lol