If you hold the disk so that the edge that goes into the drive is at the bottom, this should be in the top left corner. On one corner, there should be a sliding tab. To tell if a floppy disk is write-protected (locked), look at the underside of the disk (the part that's on the bottom when you put the disk in the drive). I assume you know this, but to make sure. I assume you are talking about the 3.5" floppies. By 2007, even PC World was pulling them from shelves and USB sticks had become the de facto product category for pocket storage.Are you talking about 5.25" and 8" floppy discs or 3.5" floppies? When magazines began to use CDs for cover-mounted giveaways (early versions would have perhaps 6MB or 7MB of material, leaving plenty of headroom) the writing was on the wall. They had a couple of advantages in terms of vast legacy support and as a boot-able medium but the principle of ‘sneakernet’ – swapping data by walking around with tiny disk in hand as it were – became anachronistic with the arrival of LANs, PC CD drives and phenomena such as Iomega Zip and ‘super floppy’ drives appeared. They were robust compared to their frail (and literally floppy) 5.25-inch antecedents although the spring-loaded head covers were very tempting to break through repeated fidgeting, like a Greek in church with worry beads. The disks were easy to lose, a host for every virus going and, although they were game for keeping hundreds of word-processing files, they couldn’t store much in the way of images, never mind emerging multimedia formats such as audio or video. Windows apps exacerbated the problem and as for operating systems… To load even a DOS program like WordStar 6.0 meant over a dozen disks and Sod’s Law said that disk nine or similar would be a rogue. The capacity was tiny and a decent chunk of the 1.44MB maximum was excised in formatting.
People talk a lot about the blinding pace of technology change but this just a throwaway mischaracterisation and even two decades ago the floppy disk seemed archaic. It was interesting to see the news that Sony is to pull manufacturing of 3.5-inch floppy disks in Japan - yet another reminder of the changing ways we use computers.
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