aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
A farewell to the floppy
When you can get a 2GB USB flash drive for $18.95, who’s going to buy a floppy?
Computing superstore PC World said it will no longer sell the storage devices, affectionately known as floppies, once existing stock runs out. [...]
It is not the first time the death-knell for the floppy has been sounded. The first nail in the coffin came in 1998, when the iMac was revealed without a floppy disk drive.
Then in 2003, Dell banished disk drives from its higher spec machines.
