Floppy Disk Drive, The

Is the floppy disk dead? As an useful format the answer to this is a resounding... Probably... After all it's a venerable format first introduced in 1971. Though it has gone through many incarnations since it reached maximum capacity at 2880Kb in 1991. Since then the world of computer storage has moved on and though many PCs are still supplied with floppy drives and floppy disks are still being sold in the shop perhaps it's time for this storage solution to finally fade away. After all, there are other solution which will perform the floppy disk's function equally well: if not better.