Farewell To the Floppy Disk

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @09:20AM from the first-they-came-for-the-Morse-code dept.

s31523 writes "Those of us who have been in the IT arena for a while remember installing our favorite OS, network client, power application, etc. by feeding the computer what seemed an endless supply of 5.25" soft floppy disks. We rejoiced when the hard 3.5" floppies came out, cutting our install media by 1/3. We practically did backflips when the data CD-ROM arrived and we declared: we will never need any other disk than this! It is with sadness that I report the beginning of the end for the floppy: computer giant PC World has announced it will no longer carry the floppy disk once current supplies run out."

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Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by whoever57 · 2007-01-30 09:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Rather fitting message from /.

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what about SATA Drives by Drakin020 · 2007-01-30 11:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

Unless things have changed I remember needing a floppy drive to install XP with a SATA Hard drive. It was used to upload the drivers for the drive. Have things changed now?

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