http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/ Engadget Comments for Sony shutting down Japanese floppy disk sales by March 2011, kills a tech dinosaur http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
Hmm... fancy Engadget getting this wrong. the 5.25" is call a floppy disk. The 3.5" is a microdisk.]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/What, your 3.5'' was never floppy?]]>Apr 26th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
So long floppy! It was fun while it lasted.
Nothing made me feel more like a geek when I was a kid than when I slid you into that drive! I almost felt like I was going to work for NASA someday! ]]>Apr 26th 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
My sentiments exactly. I was a master at freeing up the most of my 640kb. XMS? Screw that stuff.

But I do not miss floppy disks at all. As late as 2003, I still would carry papers back and forth to the school library computer lab to work on them this way, but this is how I lost my finalized copy of my senior thesis (a paper on anime, if you are curious). I finished it, printed it, and then never recovered the file from the disk.

Lame.]]>Apr 26th 2010 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/I...*sob* Childhood; goodbye! ]]>Apr 26th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/They are stopping production at a nice even 30 years at least.]]>Apr 26th 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/People from Phoenix are Phoenicians.]]>Apr 26th 2010 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
Some programs have not been using floppy disk icons on the save button for a while now. One that pops to mind is jEdit which is a programmer oriented text editor. I wonder if we will ever have such a ubiquitous symbol for "Save" in the future?]]>Apr 28th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
Good-bye Mr A:]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
My A: has long been assigned to my USB stick.


What? It's a laptop, there never was any floppy drive.


:(]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Was it a nice conversation?]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
Don't copy that floppy!]]>Apr 26th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
For old PCs that cant boot from a USB drive, those things are lifesavers.

Although I shudder to think anyone still uses them for actual file storage.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/I thought the exact same thing. I threw away my last box of floppies several years ago.]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
Many is the time I have saved the day with the $10 USB floppy drive (weird huh ? even though it is USB as well the floppy drive works when the flash stick don't) I purchased in Akihabara 3 years ago.

They're pretty hand for making bootable CDs as well as a boot partition source...]]>Apr 26th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
I'd love to throw both a 5.25" and a 3.5" floppy drive into the media bays of my next custom build.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/there are still thousands of cnc mills and routers used in daily production around the world that use floppies to read g-code from.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
We have one in our shop, in an old Centroid control. I replaced the 3.5 floppy drive with an SD card reader. It works great, but good old DOS insists on reading the entire directory each time it's accessed, so use the smallest card you can find...]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/There are also thousands or tens of thousands of Steno Machines "What court reporters use" that use a floppy, and goodness knows how many sampling keyboards that use them.
How many perfectly good devices will end up in the trash heap because you will no longer be able to get floppies?
]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/chuckle..we just converted our manual mill to cnc with a centroid controller..although the new one that runs linux and reads usb sticks or gets the data by lan]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
Yeah. I remember games where you would go through a door, have to Insert Disk 4, decide you didn't want to go that way and have to immediately Insert Disk 3. Ah, the good times.

And now we're filling up Blu-Ray discs. I feel really old now.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
I had a an AT&T laptop for a long time with Windows 95 and no optical drive...13 floppy discs.

That sucked.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/
My first MP3 download fit on a floppy. I had dreams of a collection of songs on floppies that would reside on my shelf next to the LPs.
There were no stand-alone players back then.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/I remember only 10 years ago I took a trip to Paris with my brand-new Sony Mavica camera, which used the 3.5"'s. The camera was huge.

But long before that, I remember how much more stable the 3.5's were compared to the 5.25's. My Commodore 5141c disc drive would stop reading them correctly. Then someone would bend the jacket, & I'd take it out & try to put it in another one... ah, the memories...]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Back in those days, downloading was bitch too. Between filling your shelves with floppies and having that many songs downloaded, I don't know which one is more ambitious.]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/Apr 26th 2010 9:17AM