Sony ends the production of outdated floppy disks

Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 16:03 IST   |    5 Comments
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Sony ends the production of outdated floppy disks
Bangalore: Even though you will be surprised to know that floppy disks were actually still in production, Sony has officially confirmed now that they have stop producing it. The floppy disk technology, which was quite sensational when it entered the scene, was soon outdated by CDs and Pen drives. Sony has been producing floppy drives since last 41 years and now expects to stop sales of 3.5-inch disks in Japan as of March 2011, reports Electronista. Swelling file sizes have also made floppies impractical, as virtually anything other than text is now too large to fit the available 1.44MB disk space. Some PC computer and mainboard companies had been using floppies for firmware updates even late into the last decade, but this has also been phased out. The cutoff comes as the result of both changes in design philosophy and technology. Apple was one of the first to aggressively move away from floppies as it dropped all floppies from the iMac in 1998 and the rest of its lineup soon afterwards. Virtually no desktops or notebooks now even have the option of a floppy drive.