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Goodbye to the Stiffies
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For nigh-on three decades it commanded a rigid position in the home- computing market, selling billions around the world. Yet very soon the floppy disk - the invention that launched a thousand spreadsheets, word processors and video games - will be no more.
Britain's biggest computer retailer announced yesterday that it is to stop selling the storage media, a move that will consign it to the technology scrapheap alongside the cassette deck, the video player and even (whisper it, vinyl fans) the record player.
Well, another one bites the dust. I remember installing DOOM and HEXEN, 5-6 disks each.
This cracked me up: Although the disks were known generally as floppies around the world, there were exceptions. In South Africa and Zimbabwe the 3.5" disks were known as stiffies, because of their rigid cases. In Finland, meanwhile, they were called "korppus", which translates into English as "biscuits".
I always thought a Stiffy was a male...........ROFL and a biscuit was a female....................learn something new everyday
Here is a trivia question for you old schoolers.
How many 3.5 stiffies would it take to install World of warcraft? OMG
Comments
I dont get it really. To this day floppys are still the best way to transfer .txt. files from one computer to another. USB-sticks and internet/lan is still difficult for ALOT of people. Relatively costly too.
Well anyway I guess the time has come. I had better stock up soon too. I still use them for firmware updates, and quick transfers to my older boxes for testing goat files, and other such things.
Allot of companies still use them to update firmware themselves.
I'm really sad to see my stuffies become useless. Thought that wouldn't happen till at least the age of 80.