R.I.P. Floppy Disk, Last One Sold in Europe
 

also R.I.P. Syquest, Zip and Jaz

http://mashable.com/2010/04/27/floppy-dead/

I still got a bunch of them, how many of you haven't throw all these out yet?

lol, I still have 20 or 30 Jaz Disks and a couple of syquest disks

http://195.224.149.148/SB/Syquest_230mb.jpg

old skool

Mr. Romance

I think this is circa 1993

http://www.comedycentral.com/tosh.0/...21af4ff67e.jpg

I will sell mine if you need them.

I have a bunch of 5 1/4" diskettes, 3 1/2" and Zip disks I've never used.

:sadcrying

Thats kind of funny, i was JUST reading an article about how nearly 1 million floppy disks are sold in the UK every month to this day.

i still have Floppy Disk , still a cool stuff

good riddance! honestly, its about time and not sure why they didnt die off long ago.

with solid state drives and memory cards, they are smaller, hold more and more convenient than any type of zip disk or floppy plus do not require a special drive.

End of an era....

I was so dang happy when the old big floppy's were replaced with the small ones :)

I loaded my first 2 bbs's with the small ones, wildcat and gcomm....

first games I remember having on a floppy:
California Games
Below the Root

I still have about 20 ZIP Disk with old sites on them, I just don't have a drive for them. Should just toss them, but I want to see whats on them before I throw them out.

RIP floppy!

That doesn't seem right. From the article:

Sony only sells that many in a year, apparently.

Biggest floppy disk company apparently is verbatim

Holy shit, can't believe Sony was still selling 12 million of them a year in 2009. Who would buy them?

companies and people in third world countries with very outdated equipment probably.

Hmm. It's still possible to buy the USB version here in Russia because our fuckin' tax inspectorate still accepting the tax return forms on floppy. Not buecaose our computers are outdated. Just because our tax inspectorate programmers are brainless.

didn't the web standard JUST go from 800x600 sites to 1024x768 not too long ago? A vast majority of people are still pimping outdated hardware :(

I don't remember when I used floppy last time... Years for sure...

rip..................

I threw them all away years ago.

It's amazing news that some company sold 12 million last year.

I haven't seen a goddamn floppy since 1996. Who the fuck is still using those things?

God... I remember downloading that when it came out on my 486... at 1200 baud.. and thought it was a screaming fast machine.... Then I had to fuck around creating a dos batch file to start my system with as much free resources as possible to play it... lol

I still have old ex girlfriends on some zip disks lol...

God bless the 5 1/4" from the ol days.. RIP

i got those kicking around somewhere still :1orglaugh

I wonder why it says 1997 on it.

not too long ago i needed a new zip drive (for recording studio equipment) and went into fry's to try and pick one up. sales rep was like "zi-ip?". couldn't help but LOL in his face for making me feel so old

still got a bunch of floppy/zip disks scattered around. i'll keep em for prosperity now

RIP

The floppy disk really is obsolete. You have to buy punk rock music on CDs, not floppy disks.

RIP

:pimp

r.i.p. - have a great day !

I still use floppies when installing FreeBSD, since its support for USB devices (thumb drives, external CD-ROMs) didn't work properly until the last release or two...

Goatse online?

I still have about 20 boxes of unopened 3.5-inch floppy disks, I can't find anyone that wants them and hate to just trash them lol . . .

pics? :1orglaugh

Show me ONE memory card containing leisure suit larry land of the lounge lizards!

In soviet Russia, you are floppy disk and disk is firm, like communism!

Few pack rats in this thread, lol