Featured Worklog
Price Search
PC Apex Sponsor
PC Apex Sponsors
PC Apex RSS Feeds
| |||||||
| Slashdot RSS RSS news feed directly from Slashdot. |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
30-January-07, 06:40 PM
| #1 (permalink) |
| News Hound  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Floating among Data streams, waiting for the right moment
Posts: 44,023
  |  Slashdot // Farewell To the Floppy Disk s31523 writes "Those of us who have been in the IT arena for a while remember installing our favorite OS, network client, power application, etc. by feeding the computer what seemed an endless supply of 5.25" soft floppy disks. We rejoiced when the hard 3.5" floppies came out, cutting our install media by 1/3. We practically did backflips when the data CD-ROM arrived and we declared: we will never need any other disk than this! It is with sadness that I report the beginning of the end for the floppy: computer giant PC World has announced it will no longer carry the floppy disk once current supplies run out." More... |
|  |
| Sponsored Links |
|
| Bookmarks |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Floppy Disk Bag (must see!) | Dreyco | Anything Goes | 11 | 27-September-06 07:25 PM |
| The Register // Buffalo to bring 'reincarnated floppy disk' to Japan | Gizmo | The Register RSS | 0 | 12-April-06 11:24 PM |
| You are sure this is a floppy disk? | Im_gumby | Anything Goes | 3 | 31-January-06 02:32 PM |
| Slashdot // The Death of the Floppy Disk | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 07-September-04 03:04 PM |
| Getting a floppy disk error when I boot up... | Myystical1 | Other Hardware | 6 | 25-April-04 07:12 PM |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:18 PM.
Advertisements
