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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-04-28 05:57
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n 1981, Sony brought the world the 3.5-inch floppy disk, which for nearly two decades would stand as the PC world's preferred means of storage. In 2011, after 30 years on the market, Sony will cease production of these disks.
Despite the advent of superior mediums like CDs, DVDs and flash drives, the format lived on well into the 21st century both for owners of older PCs and Macs and for storage purposes, many people's old documents, images and most importantly games still taking up megabytes on floppies the world over.
The time has finally come, however, for Sony, the 3.5-incher's creator, to pull the plug, disclosing the decision to end production earlier this week.
I'll remember the format not for its convenience or reliability - two things I thought due to its small size and flimsy nature it never had - but for how it revolutionised video gaming around school playgrounds and offices the world over by being so easy to copy.
Goodbye, Floppy Disks - PC - Kotaku
Osayidan will be sads
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RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-04-28 06:29
I've never even inserted a floppy into a floppy drive for as long as I can remember. We only own like... one computer that has a floppy drive.
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Zid wrote on 2010-04-28 18:39
This is really sad. I remember using floppy disks throughout my elementary school years. Good times... shuffling through floppy disks in those rectangular boxes. :T_T:
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Trigger wrote on 2010-04-28 18:47
I still have a good-sized box of old floppy disk games. Lollypop, Crystal Caves, Riptide, Captain Bible (as cheesy as it was it was still a great game), Pepper's Adventures in Time, The Lost Island of Dr. Brain, and so much more. Ah, the old days...
For those of you who still want to play those ancient games, there's an easy-to-use DOS emulator available, assuming you're able to copy the contents of the floppy disks to your hard drive (good luck finding a floppy drive!).
DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-04-28 18:59
I have a stack of them on my shelf :<
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Hiccup wrote on 2010-04-28 19:07
Well bout damn time I mean really
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-28 21:11
There's no place I can insert a floppy disk into my computer ._.
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Time wrote on 2010-04-28 21:14
I think I held one of those once....
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Vinhthehero wrote on 2010-04-28 21:19
I use to use floppy discs. I have so many of them still. I remember using them at school too, like when I had to type up some work, I save them in the discs and print them out at school. Now we just use flash drive which is a lot better. My current computer don't even come with a floppy drive, but I use to own a very old Sony Vaio and it did have a floppy drive and it was removable. I think now you can buy an external floppy drive that connects to the USB port. My College sells very cheap floppy discs.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-04-28 21:24
I remember when the 1.5 mb floppies were such a valuable asset.
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-04-28 21:27
Back in highschool that 1.4 MB could hold a lot of inappropriate images, and we used it to its full potential.
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Vinhthehero wrote on 2010-04-28 21:48
I remember one time, my floppy disc got stuck inside the floppy drive and I had to take apart the drive to get it out.