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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. Re:I realise I couldn't remember if I had a drive by drakaan · · Score: 5, Informative
    until then the floppy is very far from dead, just like the rs232 port.

    <offtopic>Actually, that's now called an EIA232 port, since it's no longer just a recommended standard. Changed in 1991, but since it had been "RS-232" for about 30 years at that point, nobody paid much attention.</offtopic>

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