Sony, the largest manufacturer of the 3.5" storage devices, have announced they will stop making them in March next year - 30 years after they started selling them.

They made the decision after domestic disk sales in Japan crashed from 47million in 2002 to 12 million in 2009. Sony had already withdrawn them from many international markets.

First launched by IBM in 1971, floppy disks were an unwieldy eight inches across and could only hold 80KB of information - a tiny fraction of one megabyte.

I loved these things back in high school.