02-22-2004, 03:54 PM
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Floppy disk usage
My typcial Sunday routine is to head to the local WaWa convenience store for a coffee and paper to spend a few hours perusing the ads and stories. I couldn't help but notice this AWESOME deal from Office Max: Buy 1 floppy disk organizer at $3.99 and get one free. What a deal...it holds 40 floppies, so for $4 you can organize up to 80 floppy disks! C'mon, are they really still selling these????
OK, so here's the question: how many of us still use floppies in this digital and flash storage "age"? I remember using 5.25" floppies on my C-64 (in fact I still have them!)....when they really WERE floppy! I think I was getting 360kb of storage and I remember using a hole punch to cut a notch in the cover to use the other side of the disc to double my storage!
I tend to store files on a hard drive, my PPC or my Creative MuVo USB drive\mp3 player. If you use some other storage device(s) not listed in the poll, let us know what you use. I woldn't be surprised if someone here as a fibre-channel SAN solution in their basement!
KCT
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02-22-2004, 04:02 PM
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About the only thing I use a floppy for these days, is when I need a boot disk (and the machine I am "playing" with can't boot from flash/CD)
Storage, no way! Flash drive for me!
Steve
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02-22-2004, 05:40 PM
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I got a new company PC around the start of the year and it doesn't even have a floppy drive -- internal OR external.
Personally, I miss it, because it's a lot easier to copy files to a floppy than burn them to a CD or CR-RW.
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02-22-2004, 05:41 PM
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Floppies suck. They're slow, too small to hold anything useful these days, and are frighteningly unreliable. Along the lines of what Steve said, the only thing I've used a floppy for in the last couple years is booting from to install BIOS upgrades. Now we're starting to see PCs that can boot from USB flash devices, so even this use may one day go away.
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02-22-2004, 06:13 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I hate floppies. Flash and USB memory devices are the best.
My floppies always seemed to fail on me.
Now they are only used to install SCSI drivers on OS installs, which is a pain cause don't have floppy drive installed anymore. SCSI makers provide drivers on CD, but OS looks for floppy! Sort is out MS give us an option to install drivers from CD.
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02-22-2004, 07:30 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
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I only use floppys for booting off of. Like the for dinking around with Menuet OS and Floppix or to erase a hard disk securly with Autoclave. As for storage portible storage needs I use this.
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02-22-2004, 08:31 PM
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Ponderer
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Don't need it , don't use it.
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02-23-2004, 12:10 AM
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Floppy drives are dead - I loathe them. Flash drives and bootable CDs solve the problem entirely, even for boot disks.
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02-23-2004, 12:15 AM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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Only time I drag them out anymore is to teach my A+ students to use a boot disk.
Now my friends in college still use them way too often... but at least lab staff get to pick up a nice number of free abandoned ones.
Jon.
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02-23-2004, 12:18 AM
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On another note, did anyone else see this happen with this post? Repeated numbers? 
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