Many of us remember installing our favorite OS, network client, power application, etc. by feeding our computer what seemed to be an endless supply of 5.25" soft floppy disks. We rejoiced when the hard 3.5" floppies came out, cutting our install media by 1/3. We practically did backflips when the data CD-ROM arrived and we declared: We will never need any other disk than this! It is with sadness that I report the beginning of the end for the floppy: Computer giant PC World has announced it will no longer carry floppy disks once current supplies run out.