Dead Media Beat: floppy disks

*Read it and weep.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/04/the-once-ubiquitous-floppy-finally-being-axed-by-sony.ars

"The 3.5″ 1.44MB HD floppy may finally be going gentle into the good night. Sony, one of just a few companies that still produce the archaic computer storage media, has announced plans to end production of floppies in March 2011.

"The company sold about 12 million 3.5″ floppies in Japan last year, which represents 70 percent of that market (and incidentally, about 17TB of...