the beginning of the end for floppies

[Tony Duell]

> > But, like B&W photographic print paper, it is possible to still find some
> > with enough searching.  There don't seem to be any local sources for film
> > for my still and movie cameras, other than 35mm color.
> 
> It's around.  Good photo stores still sell it (although there are fewer and 
> fewer such stores).  There are also plenty of mail-order establishments who 
> sell it.

Last time I looked (which wasn't that long ago), 35mm film cameras,. 120 
roll film cameras and 5*4" sheet film cameras were still being made new. 
And some of them were not exactly cheap. I suspect anybody who'd bought 
one of those would expect to still be able to buy the supplies for it :-)

Of course used film can't be errased and re-used, but old floppies often 
can. So the situation for floppies may not be all that bad.

> Kodak even announced a new Super-8 movie film earlier this month.

That does suprise me. I can understand people using 16mm and 35mm cine 
film for special purposes. And there are craqy enthusiasts who use 
standard-8, I guess. But who uses Super 9? 

> What annoys me about the floppy disk situation is that floppies remain the 
> only really inexpensive and easily reusable medium out there.  CD- and 

Indeed. They're also the only interchangable storage media I have on most 
of my sysstems...

I am seriously wondering how I will transfer large-ish files to other 
people in the near future.

-tony