PC World announces the end of the floppy disk

The 3.5in floppy disk, once an icon of the computer age, is to be cleared from the shelves of PC World as demand for disks plummets.
In 1998 we were using more than 2bn floppy disks a year - but new technology and the rise of digital photography and music has left the floppy disk almost obsolete.
The last days of diskPC World, on

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