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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. Re:Journalists should listen to industry leaders. by garbletext · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's wrong with including two authoratative sources in an article? MS is a software leader and Apple is (sort of) a hardware and software leader. MS cannot make any kind of authorative action to abandon floppy disks, besides to stop supporting the hardware, which is rediculous. I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but MS still has the lion's share of the OS market, and Bill Gates' opinion on these matters is at least somewhat relevant.

  2. Re:You seem to have missed my first sentence... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow...you're reloading the page way too often, man. I think we have a Mac zealot among us, people! Don't panic, stay calm.

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