End of an Era... 3 1/2" diskette sales to end.

[PingSpike]

CDs aren't going anywhere any time soon. They'll probably become less common on laptops, but since they work in a DVD drive they're here to stay.

 

[Loop2kil]

How will I ever get Win95 reloaded....

 

[Ricochet]

Good riddance.

GawdAmn, I hated floppies. I absolutely hated it back then and I absolutely hate it now.

So many lost work due to corrupt data, CRC errors, etc. I can't believe even in the years 2005+ motherboard vendors expect you to load driver/util onto a floppy for SATA/RAID or BIOS update. I remember doing workarounds like bootable USB or CD and still it wouldn't read from it and keep asking please insert disc. FUCK!!

I dealt with it in the late 80s. Why the fuck did I have to deal with it in the 2000s?

Fucking Die! Die! Die! Die already! Please, die!

 

[Gothgar]

I have a floppy drive in my PC


I just couldnt build it without for some reason....

 

[evident]

i traded my copy of guitar hero II for a usb floppy drive. shows my true feelings for what i thought of that POS game.

 

[PingSpike]

Demand is down for 3.5" floppies?

That's what she said.

 

[meltdown75]

Demand is down for 3.5" floppies?

That's what she said.

:awe:

 

[PingSpike]

On that note, did anyone else remember getting into confusing conversations with old people about their "hard disks" that were actually 3.5" floppy disks?

 

[meltdown75]

my sister calls the entire case and everything in it the "hard drive"

 

[JulesMaximus]

I threw away about 50 3.5" diskettes yesterday. I don't even own a computer with a floppy disk drive anymore.

 

[evident]

Demand is down for 3.5" floppies?

That's what she said.

3.5 floppy, 7 hard!

 

[SonicIce]

yea well if they wanted me to pay over $10 for 10 disks they can get the fuck out

 

[ahenkel]

I'm still hoarding a couple 100 floppies with stuff that most likely has gone public domain or is no longer in use by anyone anymore. I never know when I'm gonna need a copy of PKUNZIP from 1997.

 

[meltdown75]

i have birds of prey on floppy in the original box. and Stellar 7

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Sure that wasn't the greasy food crumbs? Seriously they were bad but I never had THAT much problem with them. In fact I have a number of old discs lying around here from years back that I can still read.

Around 1996-98 I saved back up copies of my homework assignments to Sony floppies as I went through school, and kept the disks in a plastic case in a desk drawer. About 10 years later when I moved out, I copied the contents to my own computer so I could burn a CD backup.

Out of 5 diskettes, 4 were perfectly readable. The fifth only had 3 or 4 corrupted files. Not as good as a 10-year old CD-RW, but not terrible either.

 

[KK]

We still have equipment that use 720k 3 1/2 disks. just imaged a few this morning. In fact, I think they have tandy format on them.

 

[irishScott]

Stored my earliest porn on some of those things.

 

[glugglug]

Does this mean we are going to stop seeing MFM connectors on motherboards?

 

[reallyscrued]

About damn time. We need affordable BD-R's already too.

 

[HumblePie]

I still use them because I have an older version of norton ghost that isn't the craptastic current versions out there. It actually makes bootable CD media instead of requiring the norton disk like the new stuff does.

Anyhow, RIP.

 

[nerp]

I still have OS/2 Warp on Floppy. Something like 50 disks.

 

[Kirby]

3.5 floppy, 7 hard!

Mine only goes to 5.25

 

[BurnItDwn]

3.5 inch Floppies should have died when CD-R's started to hit the mainstream around 1996ish.....