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Posted on April 26, 2010 by Carl Minor   |   Google+   |   Comments

Rest in Peace 1.44mb floppy disks, you will not be missed.  Sony Japan is discontinuing production of floppy discs. The funny thing about the floppy discs is, I think they lasted longer than the Iomega Zip discs which were aimed to be its replacement.  I remember in 2000 while I was attending college, zip disks were worth their weight in gold.  Cost was about 10mb a dollar.

Thankfully motherboards have very standard drivers now and can boot from USB cause I hated building computers and then needing a floppy disk drive to install a third party SATA driver so I could install Window’s XP on the hard drive.  You will not be missed three and a half inch floppy.

Hey guys, what are your fondest or worst memories with floppies, 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch. (Oregon Trail Baby!!)

  • http://karybrown.com Kary Brown

    Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? 1997 was an awesome year, lol.

  • http://www.wudanbal.com Clarence Brown

    I always thought that disk lock on the 3 1/2 inch disks was the most stupid thing, but i guess it made a little since for the would be over-writes. Also, these things were not very durable. Almost hilarious that we carried a entire semesters worth of work on one. I must say, thank you USB & the cloud!

  • http://myspace.com/liugeaux Sergio Lugo II

    My personal favorite old-ass game is Sopwith 2…look it up its awesome. I remember sneaking a floppy into school to make a copy of it. I think I still have it somewhere.

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