Flip flop to flash

It's official. The floppy disk is flipped.

PC World is going to run is stocks down, and then that's it. No more floppies.

The death knell wasn't provided by CDs and DVDs. Yes, they took over the data storage job. But for quickly transferring a spreadsheet or a text document from one PC to another, the floppy still had a useful job to do. It was so much quicker than cutting a CD. And it was reusable. And cheap.

But now we've got memory sticks. USB memory. External HDDs. And we've got the internet and PTP and local networks, and home networking has become so easy a kid could do it (though just for the record, I still occasionally have problems with mine).

Flash memory is probably what really killed the floppy.

That, and size. Size really *is* important you know. Imagine trying to stick a floppy disk in your mp3 player or compact camera!

In the other dimension, floppies are just too small. At 1.44mb they won't even take a single decent resolution photo file. And there's been no development of this product for what, ten years? Time to go gentle into that good night.