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The floppy finally flops

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief January 31, 2007 · 1 min read

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A link to an article in Digg talks about eh floppy disk being put to rest just like the video player, cassette deck and film camera. So, when was the last time you used a floppy, huh? And you don’t see them whenever you buy a new PC or laptop.

I think the ZIP drive is also on its way out. I still have dozens of ZIP drives in my closet from way back in college. The king of the portable storage device will ultimately be the flash drives, if we could only get them a little bit cheaper these days.

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24 Comments

JC John SESE Cuneta · 19 years ago

I still have Mini-Floppies lolz. and they’re still on good working conditions, I can still play my old games for 8086 and 80386 lolerz.

Yep, I bought a new PC (Core 2 Duo) last week for my birthday, no floppy drive, but instead a bunch of new-storage drives, and 7 USB slots (imagine that).

I just wish WinXP put an update to allow us to delete the Drive A because WinXP produces error when shutting down :/ it checks for Drive A which doesn’t even exist.

jun · 19 years ago

i still have about 4 boxes of used floppies at home. some of them still work. They still have their use (when my flash disk is not around).

karla · 19 years ago

the last time i used floppy disks..
when i was in 3rd year college
then i got tired of it because it breaks down after using the disk in another PC
then, i used a Flash drive instead :D

jhay · 19 years ago

I also wrote about this, but I stressed that here in the Philippines, most Pinoy students still rely on floppies for their portable storage needs.

Here’s the post, if you don’t mind.

deuts · 19 years ago

I remember using floppy disks to back-up audit files back in 2002 in one of my medium (only) clients. It took me around 8 to 10 diskettes to complete the back-up, and around say 30 minutes for back-up to complete.

You’ll lucky that time if you have pentium II notebook for the frequency of your computer hanging during back-up is quite low.

LadyVi · 19 years ago

@Miguel

It’s SSS for the quarterly report (R3) and Pag-ibig for the monthly report.

These are mandatory contributions report of Employer and Employees.

Cheeseter · 19 years ago

I have not used the floppy disk since 2001. Lately I just used CDR costing 6 pesos. Or I just save it in my gmail.

Fleeb · 19 years ago

Flash disks are cheaper these days. I bought mine from CDR King.

Miguel · 19 years ago

When I bought a (then) new PC in 2002, I dropped the floppy drive.

But companies in the Philippines still need them. Why? One of the government agencies (SSS, Philhealth or Pag-Ibig is it?) requires them to submit records via floppy!

WiLL · 19 years ago

I still have a floppy drive on my laptop. It’s a very old vaio. Never had the chance to use it, not even once. :D

Carlo · 19 years ago

The last time I used a floppy was probably in 2002 – college. Yeah, I think floppy is now dead. I no longer have any floppy drive at home but I have lots of floppy disks, those I used since highschool :)

Nostalgia Manila · 19 years ago

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Many thanks!
–Nostalgia Manila