I still have to use them... (Score 1)

Just adding my two cents about the place of 3.5" disks in the current era of computing. I too thought that the format was dead, never to be seen again, but I was proven wrong this semester at uni. I'm doing a class called "Real Time Programming" which is exactly what you would expect from the title; programming with time demands, etc. We're controlling a model train system, basically so four trains can move around automatically, switch tracks, speed up, slow down, all without crashing. Our lecturer (also designer of the system) decided to ensure that all the students had to write efficient code, decided to use an old 486 as the computer controlling it all. And how do we get our code onto the 486? By floppy disk of course! Lucky I didn't throw out that old drive I had lying around :)