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The End of a Floppy Era

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-ain't-hard-to-make-jokes dept.

An anonymous reader writes This article is an editorial on the end of the floppy and the rise of more portable, more efficient data storage." Floppy nothing. In my day we etched our data into pottery. Talk about your long term enterprise data storage. Some of those buggers made it thousands of years!

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  1. Good article by AtariAmarok · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The end of the floppy had nothing to do with Apple's mistake of not including a floppy disk drive in the first iMacs (something done too early, as shown by the sales of dongle-drive floppy units to iMac users), and everything to do with the rise of the cheap USB "thumb drive" a few years later.

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  2. Re:Not Quite by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    sata works with nvidia4 chipsets in linux just fine.

    Solution: Stop being a poser and use a real OS.

    Tom

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