Sony will finally abandon the production of 3.5-inch floppy floppy disks

12 years ago, Steve Jobs introduced the world's first iMac with a killer, translucent, colorful design, all-in-one. The machine set trends and helped pull Apple out of the hole after it almost went bankrupt in 1997.

But that iMac G3 also brought another revolution: it was a milestone in Apple's history for bidding farewell to the 3.5-inch floppy diskettes.

Steve Jobs announcing the first iMac G3

Last week, Sony Japan finally announced that it will definitely stop producing these floppies from March 2011. It no longer distributes them worldwide.

These storage devices (with 1.44MB of capacity) were invented in 1981, but had their glory period from the beginning until the middle of the 1990s, when they reached 47 million units sold. Last year, there were 8.5 million (which is still a lot, in my view).

3.5 inch floppy floppy disk

I remember it as if it were yesterday when I made a copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 for myself and I had to divide it (with partitioned RAR) into 16 of these diskettes. Good times? I do not think so

(via Examiner)