While catching up on my afternoon articles, my heart literally skips a beat when my eyes fall upon the heading: “Floppy Disks are Officially Dead.” OUCH! Could it be that another childhood memory keeper has been tossed into the throw-away pile? According to this article, this seems to be exactly the case. While these old school memory holders have obviously fallen out of the mainstream about, oh, say 10 years ago, it seems too final to say that they are officially dead. I have not used a floppy disk in probably about 10 years—they just aren’t practical anymore. When I think of a good ol’ floppy, I think of our dinosaur gateway computer that took literally 10 minutes to boot up. After the “power on” noise subsided (slightly) we could open up our games of tetras and minesweep and play for no more than one hour before suppertime. We had a floppy disk holder, resembling a wall shelf for used diskettes. Here, hundreds of floppies were housed, most of which were purchased by mum for no other reason than that they were on sale (not much as changed since then…now she has moved on to other consumer goods).
In any case, if I need to reach back into the throw-away pile of childhood delights, I can find one of these impractical devices next to the “Saved by the Bell” re-runs, gigapets, cassette stereos, antenna TVs, and of course the perpetually cool hair scrunchies. (Mum still has not received the memo on scrunchies and their respective place in the discard pile. Old habits die hard, I guess). So here’s to you, good ol’ floppy disks—may you always be remembered in your technologically prime time of the 80’s and 90’s. Cheers!
http://www.mainstreet.com/article/smart-spending/technology/floppy-disks-are-officially-dead
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