Remember floppy disks ???? We'll I do. Hafeful f**king slow, noisy, useless things that just about held a word document if you put a picture in it and shoudl have been exterminated about 15 years ago. I remember having to run programs to split files across disks and recombine them again after !!!! Imagine!!!!! However, I personally can't remember the last time I saw one, much less used one.
But apparently they are still made and about a million a month are sold in the uk, but nobody seems quite sure who is using them:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8646699.stm
But these relatively niche uses couldn't possibly account for the number of floppies - something like a million a month - that are being consumed in the UK alone.
The answer may simply be that there are a great many old computers that read only floppies, and a great many computer users that have no need for the storage media that have supplanted them in other quarters.
Rather than there being one industry propped up on the values of a floppy, or a horde of enthusiasts buying up the world's supply, they may simply be as much as many computer users need.
So, any boardsies out there still using floppies? Are you a niche user, or are you just a masochist storing your photo collection one picture per floppy ?? Do they have some clandestine use ?
