Dell and Gateway have apparently stopped including floppy drives in new computers. So here is the question: What took so long? You can’t store diddly in 1.44MB, so that’s not the pitch, and it hasn’t been for some time.
It strikes me that it’s mostly cargo cult thinking: People want floppies because computers have floppies. Turning that around, a thing with a floppy drive must be a computer. Natch.
“To some customers out there, it’s like a security blanket,” said Dell spokesman Lionel Menchaca. “Every computer they’ve ever had has had a floppy, so they still feel the need to order a floppy drive.”
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