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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. did netcraft confirm it yet? by Nova1313 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's only official if netcraft says it's dead!

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  2. Re:Not gone... by orderb13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not really the place for this, but how is XP 64 bit working out for you? I've been thinking about getting it but haven't talked to anyone that has it.