The Disk Drive: Still Coasting Along at the Ripe Old Age of 50

At the last MacWorld in San Francisco, one company placed a stack of floppy disks in the press room with their press information thereon. A quick survey of worldwide media people hanging around the pressroom instead of covering the event discovered that not one of them had a floppy disk drive in their Mac (or in some cases a rogue PC at a Mac event).

In my pocket I had a 2 GB flash drive, and my digital camera had a 1 GB memory card. So what can you put on a floppy disk? A cup. You can use it as a coaster.

You could also use any old CD for a coaster, but there is that darned hole in the middle. Liquids could still stain your table. But, wait, technology has come to the rescue.

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About Frank Romano

Frank Romano has spent over 60 years in the printing and publishing industries. Many know him best as the editor of the International Paper Pocket Pal or from the hundreds of articles he has written for publications from North America and Europe to the Middle East to Asia and Australia. Romano lectures extensively, having addressed virtually every club, association, group, and professional organization at one time or another. He is one of the industry's foremost keynote speakers. He continues to teach courses at RIT and other universities and works with students on unique research projects.