Death to the floppy disk

It's come to the end of an era, with those Internet dinosaurs such as myself having a little tear in their eye as the floppy disk ceases to be sold by PC World.

"The floppy disk looks increasingly quaint and simply isn't able to compete," said Bryan Magrath, commercial director of PC World.

It's still used in many films, so hopefully Hollywood won't quite give up the ghost yet.

For those of you who have been around in this game as long as I have, you'll even remember the tape drive from the days of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum or, in my case, the Commodore 64 - but this move just reminds us how much storage technology has moved on.

No doubt the CD will take a while to phase out ...