Top 5 Failed Floppy Disk Replacements - Tom's Top Five
Added 2023-10-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTCRemember the floppy disk? Before it was just the save icon– we actually used them to boot up our computers, run software and store our data. Near the end of the format’s life, several companies hoped they could create a successor. Here are the Top Five Failed Floppy Disk Replacements.
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I can see that. Though most people use SD cards in different ways than we used floppies. But there’s an argument to be made both ways
Daily Tech News Show
2023-10-28 19:05:32 +0000 UTCIt’s a fun exercise. I think Roger was going simply by whether they replaced the floppy or not. None of them dis
Daily Tech News Show
2023-10-28 19:04:57 +0000 UTCI consider SD cards to be the current floppy replacement, rather than the cloud.
Alan Char
2023-10-28 19:03:16 +0000 UTCNice list, I would say I agree that 80% of them were failures, as I had not even heard of them, except for the Zip Drive, which I used with my Amiga 500 until I stopped using the Amiga itself. Considering that every technology is eventually replaced, what qualifies as a failure? How long it was used for? What percentage of the population used it?
Sylvain Racicot
2023-10-24 02:35:49 +0000 UTC
