Derailment

R.I.P. Floppy Disk

Sony has announced that it is ending production of the venerable 3.5” floppy disk. Additional coverage at Ars Technica.

Things like this cause me to wax nostalgic (a sure sign of advancing age, at least in Internet terms,) but I’ll simply recall that my first OS (MS-DOS) came on something like 3-4 floppies. We also thought the boot-sector viruses that often rode around on floppies were a terrible scourge. If only we’d known what was to come.

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