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5.25" floppies were on their way out in the mid 1980s, USB was born in the late 1990s and 3.5" disks were still around and in high use then. It's a generational
by kleer001 6y ago
5.25" floppies were on their way out in the mid 1980s, USB was born in the late 1990s and 3.5" disks were still around and in high use then. It's a generational thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#History
The same reason there aren't Apple, Amiga, or Android branded Morse code keys.
- polm23 6y agoI guess that makes sense, but the cheap USB drives you find on Amazon are of recent manufacture, so for some reason it makes sense to keep making them.
- seiferteric 6y agoLots of legacy systems, industrial machines etc. still use 3.5" floppies, so many people will still have a need to write them with modern computers to transfer stuff to these machines. My mom actually has a fancy sewing machine that uses 3.5" floppies for patterns and she uses a usb floppy drive to write to it.
- foobarian 6y agoHow else do you expect me to download pictures from my Sony Mavica /s
- kleer001 6y agoOh, man, I remember when that was state of the art and everyone in the computer art department would sign up weeks ahead to get a day's use of it and fill that disk with like 12 images. When was this? 1997.
- magicalhippo 6y agoIt might have changed by now, but at least a few years ago 3.5" floppies were still used to exchange crucial information in the health sector here in Norway.
- sixothree 6y agoYou mention USB as well. Some people fail to remember that many 3.5" floppy drives in laptops used a USB connection internally. Maybe for that reason the chip already exists where a 5.25 does not.
- Zardoz84 6y agoAnd ? Both 5" and 3.5" used the same protocol/ electrical interface. The only true difference it's the motor speed and the number of tracks/sectors stored.