{"id":378,"date":"2007-01-31T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=378"},"modified":"2007-01-31T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T08:00:35","slug":"death-to-floppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2007\/01\/31\/death-to-floppy\/","title":{"rendered":"Death to Floppy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?in_article_id=35176&amp;in_page_id=34\">Floppy finally flops<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>Those pesky coaster replacements have finally been discontinued&#8230;at Britian&#8217;s largest retailer at least.  When will U.S. retailers see the light?  It only took a couple of years for the Betamax to die for all practical purposes.  The demise of the floppy is like watching fossilization in action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy.html\">Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?<\/a> via Boing Boing<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that I&#8217;m Hal Clement (Harry C Stubbs), whoever that is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crave.cnet.com\/8301-1_105-9682160-1.html?tag=rsspr.6154697\">1984 Pontiac Trans Am  KNIGHT RIDER replica on Ebay<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>Starting bid $19,000 Canadian, must pick-up car in person, seller will not ship.  Still a better deal than ECTO 1, but I&#8217;m not sure if it has an authentic Turbo Boost button.<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floppy finally flops via Digg Those pesky coaster replacements have finally been discontinued&#8230;at Britian&#8217;s largest retailer at least. When will U.S. retailers see the light? It only took a couple of years for the Betamax to die for all practical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2007\/01\/31\/death-to-floppy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-66","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}