Sony To End Floppy Manufacturing

[Karlos]

Stockpiling floppies is probably a bad idea. They have a limited life anyway. I think if you are using a classic machine it's time to look into how else you might transfer files.

One of the most useful things I've ever plugged into my A1200 was a network card. Faster than floppy and far more flexible too.

I think the main reason to have a few floppies are for emergency boot disks.

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Though as countzero says, there is probably plenty of NOS too.

[Karlos]

Waste of good plastic, virtually no space, you'd need 4 to 6 of them for a single photo or song.  I've got a pocketful of flash drives, what do I need these things for?

If you don't have any classic systems, none whatsoever. If you actually do own some original amiga machines still, then they do have their occasional use, especially if your HD goes west.

That said, the last time I had a HD boot issue like that, I put the offending HD into a PC, fired up winuae and corrected it from there. Not a floppy in sight.