{"id":434,"date":"2010-04-25T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2010-04-25T22:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T03:36:43","slug":"floppies-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/floppies-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Floppies No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-16352-Japan-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m4d24-Sony-to-discontinue-35-inch-floppy-disk-in-Japan\">Floppy Disks Sentenced to Death<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gasp!\u00a0 The Horror!<br \/>\nWhat shall we ever do with no floppy drives and floppy disks?<br \/>\nI really was unaware that companies were still making floppies, but apparently they are still being produced.<\/p>\n<p>I took my Computer Science team to a UIL Regional Computer Science contest and we had to submit our solutions on floppy disks.\u00a0 I was quite appalled to say the least and I had to search for days to find floppies and drives.\u00a0 It was like going back in time.\u00a0 The contest was held at a University which made it even more ironic.\u00a0 None of my laptops or PCs have floppy drives.<\/p>\n<p>For those hosting high school contests, PC^2 is the only way to go.\u00a0 Forget the disks and USB drives and use a Computer Science solution to solve a Computer Science problem.\u00a0\u00a0 We host a contest here in the Houston area and we use PC^2.\u00a0 The UIL State Computer Science meet here in Texas will use PC^2 this year and we are all very happy about that.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; glad to see the floppies are being killed off.\u00a0 It is a long overdue death!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floppy Disks Sentenced to Death Gasp!\u00a0 The Horror! What shall we ever do with no floppy drives and floppy disks? I really was unaware that companies were still making floppies, but apparently they are still being produced. I took my Computer Science team to a UIL Regional Computer Science contest and we had to submit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}