Is this the death of 3.5"
 

According to the BBC, PCWorld will stop selling the Floppy Disc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6314251.stm

I've got hundreds of them. I'm slowly putting them on my lappy via a USB Floppy drive.

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I reckon floppies died around 2003.

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only for newer machines with native sata controllers wanting to run xp etc as you will still need a from for none native sata and unless you slipstream into windows install the only way to get them in is off a floppy

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I haven't used a floppy for a couple of years now. :) USB memory sticks have just taken over! ;)

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My wife occasionally needs to hand in assignments for a course she is doing, and they require her to send them in the post on a floppy. Luckily, I still have one 5 year old lappy that has a floppy drive.

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Was on a client site a couple of years ago and had to copy some configs off an old Proliant. It literally took about 45 minutes walking around the building to find someone to cadge a floppy off!

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I've done college courses that don't allow USB sticks,

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Nope, they are still widely used in business, even now - its for home use that they have dropped off rapidly in the last couple of years - the rise of USB flash sticks has done this, and will eventually kill the floppy for good, first for home users and eventually in the workplace.

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Were I work I only have 1 Floopy disk (contains licence for SW package), everything else is either on CD, DVD or sent via email/websites.

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My latest PC doesn't even have a floppy drive.

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yeah, mainly cos places like the public sector (colleges and councils etc) have a phobia about USB sticks. I'm one of only 4 people allowed them in our department!

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The same public sector bodies that allow their executives to walk around with smartphones/PDAs loaded with unencrypted flash media, not to mention leaving laptops in seedy pubs ;)

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Bye bye 3.5 you was sort of loyal but now you can join 5 1/4 in never never land :waving:

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A couple of years ago I had to find a supplier of 5.25" floppies for an old computer linked to an even older bit of equipment (DEXA scanner) in a very old hospital. I managed to order two boxes from a tiny company in the UK.

Some of the older computers were built to last.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2007/01/2.jpg

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Had to get floppy for my PC
so i can install SATA raid drivers

only used the drive twice
and both for install and reinstall of windows