For me, it must have been 20 years ago in 2005. I got Kingston’s 512MB flash drive for a Christmas present and oh my how great it felt to hold so much of memory in my pocket. After that it was clear to me that there is no use for floppies to me anymore.
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I don’t remember for sure, but I’d guess late 90s at the latest, for smaller files where it wouldn’t make sense to burn a CD-R and uploading it somewhere (especially since I didn’t have a CD-RW until later) and downloading it wasn’t a viable option.
With most data transfer to friends being via BBS or later IRC DCC over the Internet, and software becoming available on CDROM, and Zip drives for backup, and CD-R and CD-RW becoming available for larger files, the use cases for floppies were already becoming limited by mid-90s.
Three months ago. Found some old 3.5s with school work from back in the day on it I wanted to check out. Got a USB floppy drive to try and get .imgs for them. Sadly most had bad sectors :(
Last year. Restoring an old Compaq notebookike one I had as a child. I bought it out of the back of a van at Vintage Computer Fest Midwest.
Write to: 2001 I think? Maybe 2002. I remember using floppy disks at 6th form college but also Zip disks & even CD+R, but switching to email and USB by university.
Reading: 2020 when I last played around with an Amiga 1200 to see if it still worked. It did.
Sometime around 2010, was working as a low level IT tech and a local dry cleaners POS system wouldn’t load. Had to replace some corrupted .exe files on their dos machine from a floppy I found in the cobwebs. Took me back in time for sure.
I was cleaning today and found a box of them.
I can’t remember clearly when the last time was.
But I was trying to boot to a CD and the computer only supported floppies. So I found a chainloader to make that happen.
I cant remember when, early 00s, but it was definitely the Egg Disk for Creatures
2003 at the latest on the family computer. No exact memory, but I got my own personal computer in 2004.
Probably I played Lemmings, I always returned to that game as a kid.
Two weeks ago. I have my reasons.
The save icon in so many programs are still floppy disks. So technically, I still use floppy disks pretty much daily. 😆
Not ctrl-s?
About a month ago. Found a copy of railroad tycoon on a 5 1/4" in an abandoned building and wanted to see if it still worked.
It did not
Aw that would have been awesome
A couple of months ago to see the solar eclipse…
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Don’t fucking judge me =_=I haven’t used a floppy since high school. I graduated in 2003. And it would have had to have been even earlier than that, because my PC by senior year didn’t even have a diskette drive.
I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t own a 1541 until early 2009. I was a cassette lamer.
So for Easter 2008 I have handed in a commodore 64 executable music entry on cassette at breakpoint. I think they were the last to require entries to be submitted on physical media.
In the years after I still used a lot of 5.25" and 3.5" on my c64, Amiga and Atari.
Today I have a turbo chameleon 64, a c64 ultimate and a gotek drive on my Amiga. I don’t miss diskettes.
As for USB drives. I got one for Christmas 2001. It had a whopping 32mb of storage and required proprietary drivers to mount.
Has to be at least 15 years. Probably 20 or more.
I still have a few floppies somewhere around here, but haven’t had a drive that can read them since I donated an ancient laptop to a friend of a relative.
I don’t feel like splashing out £12 for a USB floppy drive right now.
Other people mention 5¼" floppies for old 8-bit computers, and I suppose I do have my old computer and drive packed away somewhere, but I haven’t touched any of that in over 20 too. I’d be surprised if any of that still works and I’m kind of afraid to find out for sure.
