{"id":836,"date":"2007-01-31T06:18:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T14:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/9877ba978c08e0df3e24e6f17d693536"},"modified":"2007-01-31T06:18:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T14:18:33","slug":"hooray-the-floppy-disk-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Hooray, the floppy disk is dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As outlined in this <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">Slashdot.org<\/a><\/b> piece, <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/6314251.stm\">Farewell To the Floppy Disk<\/a><\/b>, which links to an original piece at the BBC <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6314251.stm\">PC World says farewell to floppy<\/a><\/b>, the floppy disk is, finally, dying.   <\/p>\n<p>I actually can't remember the last time I used a floppy disk, but I can count it in years, not months. I haven't had a floppy drive on any of my machines for 5 years, possibly longer.   <\/p>\n<p>While they were great at the time - and I used to buy my floppies in the hundreds - they were horrendously unreliable, particularly if you used them regularly, and although for their age they held a reasonable amount of information, today I can get a memory stick the size of a fingernail that holds 1000 times that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=mLU1Yt\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=mLU1Yt\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/84442158\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As outlined in this <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">Slashdot.org<\/a><\/b> piece, <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/6314251.stm\">Farewell To the Floppy Disk<\/a><\/b>, which links to an original piece at the BBC <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6314251.stm\">PC World says farewell to floppy<\/a><\/b>, the floppy disk is, finally, dying.   <\/p>\n<p>I actually can&#8217;t remember the last time I used a floppy disk, but I can count it in years, not months. I haven&#8217;t had a floppy drive on any of my machines for 5 years, possibly longer.   <\/p>\n<p>While they were great at the time &#8211; and I used to buy my floppies in the hundreds &#8211; they were horrendously unreliable, particularly if you used them regularly, and although for their age they held a reasonable amount of information, today I can get a memory stick the size of a fingernail that holds 1000 times that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=mLU1Yt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=mLU1Yt\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/84442158\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}