RIP: 3.5" floppy 1982 - 2010

[Avatard]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100426/tc_zd/250362

[azoomm]

Wow, I had no idea they were still making them...

[Dragonpaco]

i knew it was the beginning of the end when aol started sending promotional cd's instead of floppies. they just didnt throw the same as the old floppies did

[njchopper87]

I just used a floppy disk for my "basic technology competency exam" this past weekend at the tech college. It seemed foreign.

[Homeslice]

i knew it was the beginning of the end when aol started sending promotional cd's instead of floppies. they just didnt throw the same as the old floppies did

hell yes, floppies made excellent ninja stars

[Particle Man]

hell yes, floppies made excellent ninja stars

the 5.25" were even better than the 3.5" (but not as good as good ol' 8"). I still have both laying around and machines with drives to read them :lol:

['73 H1 Triple]

I hope we don't need floppies to do back up on the Okuma Verticle milling machine at work.

It uses 8-1/2" floppies :tremble:

[Homeslice]

8"? :scratch: Never seen those.

[Particle Man]

8"? :scratch: Never seen those.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_8-inch_floppy_formats

[Cutty72]

Don't worry, the military will still use them!

[karl_1052]

8"? :scratch: Never seen those.



http://www.ozeekian.com/karlgg/images/ac8inch2.jpg

[Homeslice]

wow......are those flexible, like the old 5.25" ones? not like the hard plastic 3.5" ones

[karl_1052]

wow......are those flexible, like the old 5.25" ones? not like the hard plastic 3.5" ones

Yup. and only held a maximum of 1.2MB

[Trip]

cant even rock a single mp3 on that shit, LOLz

[Particle Man]

cant even rock a single mp3 on that shit, LOLz

yeah but they make a HELL of a frisbee :lol:

[Papa_Complex]

hell yes, floppies made excellent ninja stars

But they just don't stick in zombie heads the way that a good CD does. They also make poor kick stand plates, whereas a half dozen AOL CDs do a great job.

[Trip]

But they just don't stick in zombie heads the way that a good CD does. They also make poor kick stand plates, whereas a half dozen AOL CDs do a great job.

I wonder what floppies do in the microwave, AOL CDs put on one hell of a show.

[Particle Man]

I wonder what floppies do in the microwave, AOL CDs put on one hell of a show.

they just sorta melt unless it's the 3.5" ones with the metal flap covering the magnetic surface - those spark a bit. :lol:

[6doublefive321]

Funny. My first job out of college was manufacturing floppies in Bumfukt Oklahoma. At the time, 3.5" floppies were booming, but we did 5.25" floppies once a quarter, and 8" floppies once per year. Once CDR's became cheap, it was the end of the line for floppies and my time in OK. Good times, good times.

[Apoc]

I remember buying PC games, sealed in plastic baggies, on 5.25 and 3.5 floppies. With printed instruction manuals! Rockford on Amiga 2600 FTW!

[Captain Morgan]

Hell, my dad still has a lot of his old computer files on 5.25" floppies and still has the Apple IIe to read them. Finally got him to upgrade several years ago, but he still keeps the old stuff around.

[Smittie61984]

I have some floppies laying around with some nice titties and asses on them.

I'm suprised that CDs are still around much less that floppies have lasted this long.

I do believe one day that Laser Discs will come back. Or I hope at least.