Citing “dwindling demand,” Sony announced it’s terminating the floppy disk for good. It has already stopped selling the 3.5 inch disks in most areas, and will stop selling them in Japan in March 2011. I have fond memories of copying shareware games to play on my Mom’s Macintosh Plus in the 80’s. Ah, those were more naive times. Share your floppy disk reminisces in the comments.

Sony bids “sayonara” to 3.5-inch floppy disks [Consumer Reports Electronics Blog]
Floppy disk finally killed off by Sony [The Telegraph]

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