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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."

3 of 472 comments (clear)

  1. Re:"the end" "continues"? by baka_toroi · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know what a metaphor is.

    Asperger much?

  2. Re:what has replaced the floppy? by tepples · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well to be fair most of that you can do with a CD or DVD -R or -RW.

    Not really. FuckingNickName seems to think CDs get damaged more easily than floppies.

    There were even various attempts to make drag and drop work - UDF and Mount Rainier and even DVD-RAM, though I still use ISO because it's compatible with everything.

    So you have to make a choice between "a floppy is much likely to be readable in any floppy drive than a CD/DVD in a random CD/DVD drive" and "no fucking burning".

  3. Re:Reminder by grahamsaa · · Score: 0, Troll

    Protip: Using words or phrases like "protip" or "pro tip" makes you sound like a douche.

    --
    Facts have a liberal bias.