Floppy Disks Still in Use. Where For Art Thou Zip Drives?
George Chernilevsky
BBC.com’s Tech page reports, in The Long Legacy of the Floppy Disk, that pure usefulness has kept clients from switching to modern data storage.
Ian Rainsford, a spokesman for media firm Verbatim, which still makes floppy disks, told BBC that “The machines driving production have remained the same and the company that developed the original equipment may well have gone out of business.” Verbatim is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.
To see discarded or discontinued technology visit The National Museum of Computing.
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