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Japan finally says goodbye to floppy disks, ends government use of legacy tech

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:46:03 +0000

Japan has finally pulled the plug on floppy disks and scrapped all use of the legacy tech in government procedures. This comes more than two decades after floppy disks started to decline. Read more...

Sony finally killing off floppy disks

Brandon Boyce — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:04:01 +0000

Sony, according to CNET, has 70% of the 3.5 inch floppy market. They have announced that they are going to end all floppy sales in March of 2011. In 2002 Sony sold 47 million floppy... Read more...

PC World stops stocking Floppy Disks

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:31:08 +0000

PC World, Britain's largest chain of computer superstores, will not reorder any more floppy disks after the current 10,000 are sold. With 155 stores across Britain and nearly 50 more elsewhere in Europe, spokesman Hamish... Read more...

Windows XP SP1a Floppy Install disks

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:14:18 +0000

Thanks to James from ieXbeta for the heads up The Windows XP startup disk allows computers without a bootable CD-ROM to perform a new installation of the operating system. The Windows XP... Read more...

Intel to kill floppy drives, serial ports next year

Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:30:39 +0000

Intel is finally inciting the death of the floppy drive and is calling on PC manufacturers big and small to stop supplying the once-capacious 1.44MB removable drive in the latter half of 2002. ... Read more...