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Getting rid of floppy drive - worth it or not? Computer Gurus assemble!!!
Ginsu Victim:
Yeah, I have one in my main desktop PC, just not in my cab.
Thenasty:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on May 26, 2009, 05:28:22 pm ---I figured that as I'm into computer games from the 80s I might as well keep a bit of 80s computer technology in my PC. ;D
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I you really want to be in the 80's, you need the 5.25 360k floppy drives. :cheers: (got lots of it)
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: Thenasty on May 26, 2009, 05:50:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on May 26, 2009, 05:28:22 pm ---I figured that as I'm into computer games from the 80s I might as well keep a bit of 80s computer technology in my PC. ;D
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I you really want to be in the 80's, you need the 5.25 360k floppy drives. :cheers: (got lots of it)
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Nah, I'm not into that new fangled stuff. I prefer to save my programs on to audio tape. ;D
Namco:
For work, I wanted to make my USB stick bootable to bring up a DOS prompt. To do this, you need to format the USB stick a certain way and copy some system files over to it from a bootable DOS floppy disk. Well, they have utilities to make bootable DOS floppies and they make utilities to install the "boot sector" section onto a USB stick, but they don't distribute the actual boot files themselves so you can just copy them over to the USB stick .... noooooooooo, that would be way too easy. Better to go dig up a floppy drive, blank (working) floppy, format /s the thing, use a utility to make a bootable DOS disk and point the USB "booter" utility to the floppy to pull the files. Yeah, way better! :banghead:
Chris:
I have one in my main PC but I am about to remove the one in my cab. My wife still has a Sony Mavica camera which uses floppy disks so still quite a few running around here.