BusyDizzys

This saddens me a little, I have been unable to find fair priced decent floppy disks for some years now, last high street seller was Staples and they stopped somewhere in 2000-2002. The end for the 1.44mb HD disks may be near, you want to try getting new 720K DD (double density floppies!) near impossible only in the US I found some with stupid $100+ tags. I still use floppy disks for development on Atari/Amiga systems, thing is I know alot of PC vendors issue BIOS updates/SATA drivers and things in some kind of home made weird package that expands onto you guess it a floppy disk... of course there are work arounds (virtual floppy drives,SATA drives that pretend to be IDE etc.) but the floppy just works! Mind you the last pack of IBM branded floppys I found in a PoundShop 9 out of the 10 had bad sectors lol :p Apprantly millions are still sold each year, so where are they going :)

Stock image of insertion of floppy relic :

"Sony has signalled what could be the final end of the venerable floppy disk.The electronics giant has said it will stop selling the 30-year-old storage media in Japan from March 2011."

Orig. article : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8643844.stm

Follow up : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8646699.stm

More : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/26/sony_stops_selling_floppies/