Sony is to bid a final farewell to the 3.5in floppy disk and will be ceasing manufacturing as of March 2011.
The company put a stop to the disk's international sales last month but has now confirmed it will be cutting it off in its home territory of Japan as well.
Sony began making the classic storage devices back in 1981 to replace the larger 5.25in models and it soon became the dominant force in the market.
However, floppy disks have been steadily dropping out of the market for some time now with sales falling from 47 million in 2000 to just 8.5 million last year.
The format can no longer compete against the likes of CDs and USB flash drives which offer a lot more storage for a smaller price tag.
Although the end of an era, most PC manufacturers have dropped floppy disk drives from their products with Apple leading the way in 1998 and Dell following suit in 2003. HP only stopped installing the drives on its business desktops last year.
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