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PC World says farewell to floppy
Kaytrim:
The Death of the old floppy disk is near at hand.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6314251.stm
leapinlew:
that floppy has about 3-4 years of life yet.
To install SATA drivers you need a floppy drive - sure, Vista will fix that but I would expect another 3-4 years of XP use.
Does anyone else remember when floppies were fairly reliable? I remember having 2 floppies in my book bag all through college to store documents. Now, if I copy something to a floppy, I'm luck if it makes it across the room to a different computer.
missioncontrol:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 30, 2007, 05:02:07 pm ---Does anyone else remember when floppies were fairly reliable? I remember having 2 floppies in my book bag all through college to store documents. Now, if I copy something to a floppy, I'm luck if it makes it across the room to a different computer.
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man I'm doing some volunteer work fixing old donated PCs that are donated to Habitat for Humanity to be resold, and I end up having to make 5 or 6 boot disks before one actually works on a PC....
same way with drivers....
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 30, 2007, 05:02:07 pm --- I remember having 2 floppies in my book bag all through college to store documents. Now, if I copy something to a floppy, I'm luck if it makes it across the room to a different computer.
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Across the room, I can't even go from desktop to laptop at the same desk. I had to buy a flashdrive, because cd's with 1 meg files were getting wasteful.
Mac just stopped including floppy drives. I thought Microsoft was using shock therapy to make us voluntarily stop.
shmokes:
Yeah, their decline in demand has caused quality to fall through the floorboards. Dell PCs still come with floppy drives by default when you're buying business class workstations. I manually remove them from the configuration of my machines. I pretty much do not allow my users to work with floppy disks. I get some complaints, but they are better than the, "My computer won't read this disk and it's the only copy I have of such-and-such vital spreadsheet I've been working on for the last three months," ones.