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Remember the floppy disk? Before it was just the save icon–  we actually used them to boot up our computers, run software and store our data. Near the end of the format’s life, several companies hoped they could create a successor. Here are the Top Five Failed Floppy Disk Replacements. 

  

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Sylvain Racicot

Nice list, I would say I agree that 80% of them were failures, as I had not even heard of them, except for the Zip Drive, which I used with my Amiga 500 until I stopped using the Amiga itself. Considering that every technology is eventually replaced, what qualifies as a failure? How long it was used for? What percentage of the population used it?

Alan Char

I consider SD cards to be the current floppy replacement, rather than the cloud.

dtns

It’s a fun exercise. I think Roger was going simply by whether they replaced the floppy or not. None of them dis

dtns

I can see that. Though most people use SD cards in different ways than we used floppies. But there’s an argument to be made both ways