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Where to buy new floppies? (Users)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 01.09.2012, 21:06

> I'm still using 3.5" floppy diskettes for back-ups.
>
> I've got boxes of unused floppies that have sat in storage for a decade or
> more, and I'm concerned that the binder on those disks may have been
> degraded from fluctuations in temperature, humidity and just the passage of
> time.
>
> I'm wondering if floppies are even manufactured anymore.

It doesn't look good for ye olde floppies.

http://www.osnews.com/comments/26316

http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/The-History-of-the-Floppy-Disk/ba-p/6434

> "Apple prospered the most from the floppy drive but ironically
> was the first to abandon it as read-writable CDs and DVDs took
> over. The 1998 iMac was the first consumer computer to ship
> without any floppy drive.
 >
> However, the floppy drive took more than a decade to die. Sony,
> which at the end owned 70% of what was left of the market,
> announced in 2010 that it was stopping the manufacture of 3.5? diskettes.
 >
> Today, you can still buy new 1.44MB floppy drives and floppy disks,
> but for the other formats you need to look to eBay or yard sales.
> If you really want a new 3.5? drive or disks, I'd get them sooner
> than later. Their day is almost done."

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