http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34776424
Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in
March 2016. The firm revealed on its website that it will also stop
shipping the Micro MV cassette, used in video cameras. It has not
produced a compatible camera for the Micro MV since 2005. Sony launched
the format in 1975, a year before JVC's rival the VHS cassette - which eventually became the market leader after a long battle between the two brands and their fans. Although many felt Betamax was the superior
format, most cite the longer recording length of VHS tapes - three hours versus one - and the cheaper manufacturing costs for VHS machines as the
main factors as to why VHS eventually won out.
Are those 5.25" floppies going to be next?
On 2015-11-13 16:01:46 +0000, philo <philo@privacy.net> said:
Are those 5.25" floppies going to be next?
I hope not - I still use them for my C64...
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Ian McCall wrote:
On 2015-11-13 16:01:46 +0000, philo <philo@privacy.net> said:When this has come up elsewhere, I think the answer has been that
Are those 5.25" floppies going to be next?
I hope not - I still use them for my C64...
they can be had, but you have to deal with specific places. So don't
expect to be able to get them at your local drugstore (where they no
longer even mention blank VHS tapes anymore), but out there there is a
stock of new old stock floppies, but 5.25 and 3.5.
They were making so many, and there was a slow decline, that probably stockpiling meant saving a few days of production, or something like
that, even if they aren't still being made (I have no idea).
Maybe ten years ago, I ended up with a box of 25 and then 50 3.5"
floppies, both really good deals in a flyer. I wouldn't have bought at
25 if I'd known a few weeks later that I could get fifty for not much
more. But that was about the point where I stopped using them for
anything much, so most of that stock is available.
I also consolidated various floppies, and in some cases moved the
contents to some other medium, releasing a bunch of others. So if I
really needed floppies, I'm probably okay. I don't have as many spare
5.25" floppies, but I stopped using those at the end of 1993, so chances
are good that's not going to rise up again. On the other hand, I have
kept 5.25" floppy drives around, just in case.
Michael
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34776424
Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in
March 2016. The firm revealed on its website that it will also stop
shipping the Micro MV cassette, used in video cameras. It has not
produced a compatible camera for the Micro MV since 2005. Sony launched
the format in 1975, a year before JVC's rival the VHS cassette - which eventually became the market leader after a long battle between the two brands and their fans. Although many felt Betamax was the superior
format, most cite the longer recording length of VHS tapes - three hours versus one - and the cheaper manufacturing costs for VHS machines as the
main factors as to why VHS eventually won out.
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