http://www.metafilter.com/tags/floppy Posts tagged with 'floppy' at MetaFilter. Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:26:04 -0800 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:26:04 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/58327/Bring%2Dout%2Dyour%2Ddead%2Ddisks The end of the world is nigh! For 3.5" floppy disks anyway, as one of the UK's biggest computer retailers announces <a _top href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/01/30/cnfloppy30.xml">its decision to stop selling floppy disks</a>. But then again, perhaps <a _top href="http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/floppy-discs-are-90mm-not-3-and-a-half-inches.html">there never was such a thing as a 3.5" floppy disk to begin with</a>. Oh dear... I'm so confused. In that case I guess now, at the end of all things, <a _top href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/floppy-disk-drive.htm">it's probably a good idea to find out how floppy disks work</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.58327 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:26:04 -0800 disks floppy Second Account For Making Jokey Comments http://www.metafilter.com/11115/ <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22034.html">Where Apple goeth, the industry will follow . . .</a> eventually. <i>"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."</i> I remember the first 3.5 inchers (weren't they 400k) with my first Mac in '84. Yet another era passes. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.11115 Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:21:41 -0800 apple diskdrive floppy intel mac fpatrick