The Floppy Is Dead. Finally.
Filed under: Tech — Malcolm Owen @ 11:37 pm
Nothing says “This is a dead product” more than a large shopping chain in the UK saying they’re not going to stock it any more.
PC World (Stop Laughing) have declared that they are not going to be selling any more floppy disk drives, nor floppy disks. And by not selling any more, I mean they’re selling their remaining stock, but once it’s gone, they aren’t getting any more.
It’s been a long struggle, but finally people are getting the idea, using flash drives, MP3 players, CDRs, DVD-Rs, e-mail and removable hard disk drives to transfer their data, instead of the constantly failing and relatively expensive in comparison to it’s capacity floppies.
Of course, if you have a collection of old disks remaining, here’s an idea: Make spaceships out of them!
On a side note, PC World is owned by the same company behind Dixons, whom were the benchmark for when the VCR died. Hmm…
[Thanks to the Metro]
