Even my comments have become obsolete.
At one of my former places of work, perhaps six or seven years ago, we had numerous
drawers of diskettes available for erasing and then for use - mostly back-up.
And even though any diskette that had found its way into a drawer was fair play
for erasing, we'd still take a look at its contents before actually resuing it.
Who knows, maybe there was really something we didn't want to throw out on it.
Most of these diskettes were originally from purchased programs which had become
obsolete almost as soon as they'd been installed. Though even by then CDs had
pretty much become the standard for distributing new programs, diskettes were
still very common.
Things have changed, and very quickly. A bit more than
a year and a half ago I was still writing about the diskette that seemed to
always be in my pocket. Today, though my pocket still
sags with various notes, it's been quite a while since I last carried a diskette
there. Technological developments, and especially the decrease in the price of
USB flash drives, have pretty much made the diskette obsolete, though the jury
is still out on whether people are going to throw out their old disks, or simply
erase their original content and then leave them in a drawer, wondering why they
still keep them if they don't reuse them.
Go to: Left by the wayside, or
Go to: A task of the past, or
Go to: Tools I've known and loved ... and often abandoned.