Friday, 7. February 2003
Topic: - on February 7, 2003 at 12:37:42 PM CET
Dell to remove floppies on desktops
Floppy disk drives will soon be history at Dell Computer Corp.
The company plans to stop installing the drives on high-end Dimension computers in March and offer them only as an option, Dell spokesman Lionel Menchaca said.
For years, computer users stored data on portable floppy disks. The plastic square disks can hold up to 1.44-megabytes of information.
But Round Rock, Texas-based Dell has seen customers moving toward newer, larger capacity technology - especially portable hard drives and rewriteable CDs.
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