{"id":3408,"date":"2012-08-29T09:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2012-08-29T09:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:06:50","slug":"history-of-the-floppy-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3408","title":{"rendered":"History of the Floppy Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the floppy well. I never had a computer that required an 8-inch disk, though I used those disks at the publishing house where I worked.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, verily, I suffered through stacks of 5 1\/4-inch floppy diskettes, and piles upon piles of 3.5-inch diskettes. There was once a whole chapter of <em>PCs For Dummies<\/em> dedicated to the different types and densities of floppies.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I still have one computer in the garage that has a 5 1\/4-inch floppy drive. I also have a &#8220;loose&#8221; drive that I could install in any computer, but haven&#8217;t done so in over 10 years. I have a USB 3.5-inch floppy drive I&#8217;ve used from time to time. But with Sony stopping manufacture of floppies in 2010, the era is pretty much over.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, floppy disk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/h30565.www3.hp.com\/t5\/Feature-Articles\/The-History-of-the-Floppy-Disk\/ba-p\/6434\" target=\"_blank\">Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the floppy well. I never had a computer that required an 8-inch disk, though I used those disks at the publishing house where I worked. Yeah, verily, I suffered through stacks of 5 1\/4-inch floppy diskettes, and piles upon piles of 3.5-inch diskettes. There was once a whole chapter of PCs For Dummies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}