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The Death of the Floppy Disk

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the whatever-will-i-throw-at-you-now dept.

vook writes "Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it'll hang around but never hold the same relevance in everyday life. "

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  1. floppy RAID! by spoonyfork · · Score: 5, Funny

    What "death of floppies" article would be complete without a link to Floppy RAID!

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  2. Never used floppies... by sgant · · Score: 5, Funny

    I still load all my programs in with a cassette tape recorder...never bought one of them "floppy drives" for my computer as I thought it wouldn't last.

    Turns out I'm right after all! Saved my self some bucks.

    Though it takes about 2 hours now to just boot my computer off the cassette. And I won't even begin to tell ya how long it took to compile Gentoo.

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  3. You used tapes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    You wasted your money my friend. I stuck with panel switches. lasted me all these years and i was laughing, yes, laughing when i saw you messing around with those reams of tapes.


    still, its tough when you break a nail or three compiling Gentoo. almost done now though.

  4. Re:Quote from TFA by alacar · · Score: 5, Funny
    And when something is too large I burn it to a CDROM or DVDROM.

    And how do you do that ???

  5. Not quite a dupe by Dirtside · · Score: 5, Funny

    But seriously, 1998 called and it wants its "Death of the Floppy Disk" story back. Jesus.

    (I'll head off the obvious response now: "2001 called, it wants its joke back." Thank you, I'm here all week.)

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