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The End of the 3.5-inch Floppy Continues

Posted by timothy on from the finally-we-can-standardize-on-bernoulli dept.

JoshuaInNippon writes "In a brief press release buried within Sony Japan's website, the company announced that it would be ending sales of the classic 3.5-inch diskette in the country in March 2011. Sony introduced the size to the world in 1981, and it saw its heyday in the 1990s. Sony has been one of the last major manufacturers to continue shipments of the disk type it helped develop, but had ended most worldwide sales in March of this year. The company's production of the 3.5-inch floppy ceased in 2009. Sony noted demand, or lack thereof, as the reason. The company's withdrawal is one of the final acts in the slow death of the floppy era."

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  1. Re:points to an increasing problem with modern tec by tepples · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What if you want to play Nintendo games on a CRT fed by an RF adapter?

    All cartridge-based Nintendo consoles that have RF output also have composite output, except for the Japan-only original Famicom and the rare top-loading NES. The front-loading NES, as well as all Super NES, N64, GameCube, and Wii consoles, has a composite video output.

    or: manage to implement something close enough in software so that your emulator is good enough.

    In that case, you still need to ramp up your DIY tech in order to make a cartridge reader so that you can copy your Game Paks to the PC to make ROM files for use in an emulator. Retrode doesn't support NES yet.