{"id":621,"date":"2009-12-28T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2009-12-28T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T02:51:17","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-sony-35-floppy-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/621\/retro-scan-of-the-week-sony-35-floppy-disk","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Sony 3.5&#8243; Floppy Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sony_floppy_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sony_floppy_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sony 3.5\" Disk Ad - 1987\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>This reminds me of a psychic parlor trick.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sony-designed 3.5&#8243; floppy drive (1982) first made waves in the mid-1980s with its use in the Apple Macintosh, released in 1984.  The format quickly gained popularity in the PC market and overtook the 5.25&#8243; floppy disk in overall usage by the early 1990s.  PC clone manufacturers, many of whom had supported both the larger and smaller floppy formats,  eventually stopped including 5.25&#8243; drives in their machines.<\/p>\n<p>Today, 3.5&#8243; floppy drives are rarely found in new PCs thanks to more capacious CD-Rs, removable flash media (especially USB thumb drives), and nearly ubiquitous computer networking.  However, that hasn&#8217;t stopped Windows XP from requiring @#^$ RAID drivers on a floppy disk when it&#8217;s being installed.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Macazine, January 1987 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Do you still use 3.5&#8243; floppy disks regularly?  What for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,40,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-macintosh","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}