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Sony officially discontinues floppies come 2011


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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
PostPosted: Apr 29 2010 01:31 am Reply with quote Back to top

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20003360-92.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

They had 70% of the market share on these things.


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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
PostPosted: Apr 29 2010 02:03 am Reply with quote Back to top

Damn. I had some good memories of storing things on those. Mostly porn.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
PostPosted: Apr 29 2010 03:51 am Reply with quote Back to top

I still use floppies to make either USS Enterprises and Klingon Birds of Prey. Both my Starfleet and Klingon ship totals will drop because of this.
http://www.asciipr0n.com/archive/0013/bonnie/craft/
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However if floppies do go extinct I will always remember trading pr0n on floppies in high school because CD-R drives were pretty new/pretty expensive when I was in high school.


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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
PostPosted: Apr 29 2010 06:39 am Reply with quote Back to top

Haha those are awesome Ice. I always loved the grinding noises floppy drives made. It was so soothing.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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PostPosted: Apr 29 2010 09:40 am Reply with quote Back to top

I thought floppies died 10 years ago.
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Chile Guy
Title: Token Latino Otaku
Joined: Apr 14 2008
Location: Fortaleza, Brazil
PostPosted: Apr 29 2010 09:59 am Reply with quote Back to top

Well, floppies were the pen drives of the 90's, but for today's patters, a little less than 1.5mbs of data is too little.
Nevertheless I'll keep mine.


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