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So, farewell dear floppy disk as production ends forever in March, 2010

April 26th, 2010 2:11pm 2 comments

So, farewell dear floppy disk

We can’t actually remember the last time we used a floppy disk, and for most users these little squares of plastic are but a distant memory, but it turns out Sony hasn’t stopped making and selling them. Yet.

Sony created the world’s first 3.5-inch floppy disc back in 1981 and for decades, PCs creaked and made strange noises as computers battled to access the 720K (double-density) or 1.44MB (high-density) data onboard.

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