Sony Killing Off Floppy Disk Production in 2011
Sony Japan has said it will cease production of floppy disks next year.
Floppy disks might be as old as the hills but Sony still sold over 12 million of them in Japan last year. Unfortunately, Sony Japan has some bad news for those responsible for last year's sales: Come March 2011, you won't be able to buy any more.
According to the Mainichi Daily News, the last man standing in floppy disk production Friday announced that it would discontinue diskettes over the next 12 months. Sony launched the world's first 3.5-inch floppy disk in 1981 and stopped production in most markets last month. With just Japan and India left, it makes sense for the company to hang on until the 30-year anniversary. It just wouldn't be right to kill it off on its 29th birthday.
What are you using your old floppy disks for these days? I find they're good substitutes for coasters and great for fixing wobbly table legs.

Still remember the drill : Insert diskette --> Open Command Prompt --> cd davedave
These little bastards sure deserve a 12 gun salute & a minute of silence.
Rest in Peace my dear friends.
if u have windows 7 u could have used a USB Flash drive
Also, there was some kind of formatting that I remember doing that make them several kilobytes larger...I think the standard was like 1.44 megs or something, and if you formatted them this special way, you'd get like 1.45 or 1.5 or something...can't remember.
And if you defraged them you could squeeze a few more files on them. But you were still always running out of space, so you had to jot done the blank space available on them and the smallest file size, and if you could find a file that would fit in the blank space of another disk, you just freed up several more kilobytes!
So you had to have boxes of these things to be able to store anything...but they were soooo much better than 5.25" disks.
Thank god computers have advanced beyond this. I now have an old 4 gig USB drive that is probably larger then the combined size of all the 3.5" disks I ever owned.
gosh, I switched over to zip disks ages ago, lol. Actually though, I do remember a time when nearly every computer had a zip drive in it. Boy did they blow it. Zip disks coulda killed off rewritable CDs if they had their act together. And I think I remember a couple different versions of high capacity floppy disks that should've had potential, too, if someone had been marketing them correctly.
I meant to comment on this. Problem with Zip disks is you needed a Zip drive, CD-ROM drives were much more popular to be found espically since then had been used in the recording industry. Zip disks also had reliabilty issues compared to CD's