Dell Dropping The Floppy

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 5, 2003 @07:53AM from the drop-away dept.

adambwells writes "Dell wants to stop including floppy drives as standard hardware on its Dimension line of desktops, and will start this practice later this quarter, as reported in this Yahoo article. Says Dell's product marketing: We would like to see customers migrate away from floppies as quickly as possible, because there are better alternative technologies out there ... it's an antique technology. At some point, you've got to draw the line. You wouldn't think of using a processor from 15 years ago." They plan to educate their customers about recordable CDs and USB pen drives as replacements."

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Something Apple did nearly five years ago by iJed · 2003-02-05 07:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

Its interesting to not that Apple got a lot of complaints when they scrapped the floppy from the iMac back in 1998. However, after a couple of months, nobody who actually used the iMac seemed to complain anymore. I think its about time that the rest of the computer industry scrapped this "stoneage" technology.