The floppy disk isn't dead _ technically.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 12, 2003 ;     536 words ......with a couple of friends the other day over the floppy disk _ yes, that floppy disk. They were outraged that the floppy drive is fast...us? Or is it just some crazy Internet rumor? The floppy disk can't be dead, they said, with disbelief if their...

The floppy disk isn't dead _ technically.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  March 12, 2003 ;     536 words ......with a couple of friends the other day over the floppy disk _ yes, that floppy disk. They were outraged that the floppy drive is fast...us? Or is it just some crazy Internet rumor? The floppy disk can't be dead, they said, with disbelief if their...

Floppy may be over the hill

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  March 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ......that it would no longer include floppy disk drives as a standard feature in...mourn or, God forbid, denigrate the floppy disk, but to praise it. It is, after...of local pride. IBM invented the floppy disk in San Jose. It deserves its own...

Technology Watchers Debate Future of Floppy Disk.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 18--The floppy disk is dead; long live the floppy disk. Apple Computer's hot new iMacs, which went on sale Saturday, don't include a floppy disk drive. Unified Research Laboratories, a Hampton...

LAST WEEK, MACINTOSH'S NEWEST COMPUTER WAS UNVEILED WITHOUT A FLOPPY DISK...

The Virginian Pilot;  August 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Byline: LON WAGNER, STAFF WRITER The floppy disk is dead; long live the floppy disk. Apple Computer's hot new iMacs, which went on sale Saturday, don't include a floppy disk drive. Unified Research Laboratories, a Hampton...

e-business: After 30 years Dell sounds the death knell for the floppy...

The Birmingham Post (England);  April 8, 2003 ;     466 words ......Chris Tomlinson The once ubiquitous floppy disk is soon to be ejecting permanently...role to play for the humble 3.5' floppy disk drive in its high-end PCs. And...much loved magnetic media. The floppy disk has travelled a long way since...

The floppy deserves respect even as some dump it.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  February 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......that it would no longer include floppy disk drives as a standard feature in...mourn or, god forbid, denigrate the floppy disk, but to praise it. It is, after...of local pride. IBM invented the floppy disk right here in San Jose. It deserves...

SOON, THE 3.5-INCH FLOPPY DISK WILL BE NOTHING BUT A MEMORY

The Boston Globe;  February 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......week that beginning next month floppy disk drives will no longer be standard...pages daily. From 1995 to 2001, floppy-disk sales declined from 5 billion to...Computer stopped including the floppy disk drives in Macintosh computers five...

Floppy disk timeline.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 12, 2003 ;     310 words ...1971 _ IBM develops the first floppy disk, code-named `the Minnow, at its...introduces the first 5.25-inch floppy disk. The smaller size was deemed a...Sony introduces the 3.5-inch floppy disk that was smaller than the industry...

New floppy can hold 80 times as much as old disk could.(Originated from...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 6, 1996 ;     683 words ......very good thing. The new LS-120 floppy disk announced Monday by 3M and Matsushita-Kotobu...thousandfold in the past decade, floppy disk storage capacity remained exactly...novel. So the new 120-megabyte floppy disk and its fancy new drive has the...

NEW FLOPPY HOLDS 80 OLD DISKS' WORTH.(BUSINESS)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 18, 1996 ;     485 words ......very good thing. The new LS-120 floppy disk announced last week by 3M and Matsushita-Kotobu...thousandfold in the past decade, floppy disk storage capacity remained exactly...novel. So the new 120-megabyte floppy disk and its fancy new drive has the...

Floppy disks: The next generation

Office Solutions;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The venerable floppy disk has had an amazingly long run as the...ROM drive. Today, the high-density floppy disk, with its modest 1.44MB capacity, is...introduced the iMac in 1998 without any floppy disk drive at all. The rationale for this...

Dell to Make Floppy Disk Drives Optional

AP Online;  February 6, 2003 ;     387 words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: AUSTIN, Texas Floppy disk drives will soon be history at...rewriteable CDs. The utility of a floppy disk is just no longer there for most...Computer Inc. stopped including floppy disk drives in Macintosh computers five...

Soon, That 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Will Be Nothing but a Memory.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......week that beginning next month floppy disk drives will no longer be standard...pages daily. From 1995 to 2001, floppy-disk sales declined from 5 billion to...Computer stopped including the floppy disk drives in Macintosh computers five...

Whither floppy disk? (slowdown in floppy disk production)(Bits And Bytes)

Tape-Disc Business;  January 1, 1998 ;     685 words ......intended to replace the 3.5-inch floppy disk (FD), while in the optical arena...CD-ROM, having moved well beyond floppy disk. Implicit in all the reports is...Infosystems will still provide floppy disk duplication at its Plymouth plant...