[ale] a moment of silence please

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

JoshuaInNippon writes "In a brief press release buried within Sony Japan's 
website, the company announced that they would be ending sales of the classic 
3.5 inch floppy disk in the country in March of 2011. Sony introduced the 
size to the world in 1981, which saw its heyday in the 1990s. Sony has been 
one of the last major manufacturers to continue shipments of the disk type 
they helped develop, but had ended most worldwide sales in March of this 
year. The company's production of the 3.5 inch floppy ceased in 2009. Sony 
noted the demand, or a lack thereof, as the reason. The company's withdrawal 
is one of the final marks in the slow death of the floppy era."
 
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