Floppy disk joins technology scrapheap
Rushda:
January 30th, 2007
I’ve used floppy disks as long as I have used computers. But now it looks like they are dying out like cassette tapes and VHSs because of superior forms of holding data (such as writeable CD/DVDs and memory sticks) that can have over 1000 times more storage. Britain’s largest PC World has stated that as soon as stocks run out it will discontinue sales of floppies. Farewell floppy disks; in a way I will certainly miss them.
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:08 am
I too have not used a floppy disk for years but I actually needed one the very day after I threw mine away! If you are reinstalling windows on your computer, you may need a boot disk. You can get a Windows CD to be bootable but if you don’t have one of those and you don’t want to go through the long and complicated job of creating one, you should make a bootable floppy disk!