Sony to stop selling floppy disks from 2011

Sony has announced that it will discontinue the floppy disk. It has been in use since the early 70’s, and can only hold 1.44mb of data. They say that there is too much competition from other “storage media”. You can get a USB stick that holds 8BG of data for around $25, or less on sale. Floppy disks come in packs of 10, costing around $10. 25 disks, which would be the same price as a USB stick, would hold only 36mb of data, not to mention take up more physical space. They are useless in my opinion, and out of 6 computers in my house, only one can even read them. I don't think you can buy a new computer that does, and forget a laptop that can do this.

Original Article is from the BBC and can be found here.