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2004-09-07, 12:50 PM #1
...1.44 are becoming more and more obsolete... as the days move on. CNN.com discovered this way too late.

Sad this is, I still use my floppy for reformats. Good thing I have several kicking around...:D
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2004-09-07, 12:54 PM #2
Hmm. I still need a floppy drive, 'cause of the way our OSes are installed. Otherwise, I just stick it on our USB key.
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2004-09-07, 1:00 PM #3
I rarely use floppys... ever.

If i'm backing something up i use CDR's, if I'm transferring files between computers i use my MP3 player. I still have a floppy drive.. just in case i ever want to use it.
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2004-09-07, 1:05 PM #4
I use floppies to transfer things from one pc to another, if it's around 2mb i just split it with a splitter program. I'd move onto Usb stuff but i don't know where to get them and i don't think it'd be worth it since i don't transfer much more at a time - anyway, i've got a DVD writer if i have sudden urges... :p
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2004-09-07, 1:11 PM #5
The only reason I have used a floppy disk recently was to play Space Quest 2. I got the urge after playing Peasant's Quest.
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2004-09-07, 1:14 PM #6
I've not used a floppy for about two years. Now, if I want to send something from one PC to another, I'll either upload it, email it, or put it onto a USB harddrive thing.
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2004-09-07, 1:23 PM #7
Floppies are so useless once you get yourself a zip drive, that is if the other computer you are trying to transfer files to has a zip drive as well. At the college I go to, every computer has a zip drive so I have absolutely no use for a floppy drive. Plus, floppies die pretty freaking fast. Reliable PoS they are.
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2004-09-07, 1:24 PM #8
My stepdad bought a lap top, and it didn't have a disk drive. Instead he uses the DVD burner or the little removable memory card things.
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2004-09-07, 1:31 PM #9
I just realized my computer doesnt have a floppy drive...
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2004-09-07, 1:37 PM #10
Ha, I have one, I win. :p

Actually, I don't use floppies anymore. The most recent usage is when a PSX -> USB controller adapter came with it's drivers on a floppy.

The floppy was so slow I couldn't run the install from it, I had to copy it to my hd first. :p

2004-09-07, 1:40 PM #11
Why do you need a floppy when you've got a gmail account? People could send you the storage capacity of 300 floppies and it wouldn't even put a dent in your inbox storage.
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2004-09-07, 1:55 PM #12
Well, Gmail does limit each email to 20 megs.
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2004-09-07, 2:26 PM #13
I took my floppy drive out of my box almost 2 years ago and haven't missed it yet
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2004-09-07, 2:36 PM #14
Haven't used a floppy on MY computer for years.
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2004-09-07, 2:59 PM #15
All of my computers have floppies but they're rarely used, usually just bootdisks, sometimes documents from friends.
2004-09-07, 3:02 PM #16
Quote:
Originally posted by SavageX378
Floppies are so useless once you get yourself a zip drive, that is if the other computer you are trying to transfer files to has a zip drive as well. At the college I go to, every computer has a zip drive so I have absolutely no use for a floppy drive. Plus, floppies die pretty freaking fast. Reliable PoS they are.


even zip disks are nearly obsolete. They were great back in 1995-1996, back before the advent of cheap cd-r media, but they always were too damn expensive especially when CD recordables became cheap enough to be expendable. They held less than half of what a CD held, so I never saw the use of adding a zip drive to my older pc that had a 4x cd burner back when I got it.

Floppys are still useful on older machines if the BIOS doesn't support cd booting if you have to reload windows 9x.
2004-09-07, 3:13 PM #17
I haven't used a floppy in over a year. I know this because I removed my floppy drive 2 summers ago, but it was dead anyway.
2004-09-07, 4:07 PM #18
I use my floppy's a few times a month, mainly for bringing various word docs/jpg's down from my computer to the computer with the printer (our network is kind of flakey and my printer jams every so often which I never feel like fixing).
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2004-09-07, 6:02 PM #19
Who needs floppies? I have an internet connection and a USB jump drive and those are waaayyy better options.
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2004-09-07, 6:13 PM #20
I use floppies as ninja stars when I'm fighting Nazi insurrectionsts. I also use them to move .bmps and stuff from one PC to another.
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2004-09-07, 6:41 PM #21
Last time I used a floppy was for a Linux boot disk that I needed to get a dual-boot setup done the way I wanted it. That was quite a few months ago. Other than that, I either send stuff via network, transfer via CD-RW, or in those extreme cases I've transferred via my digital camera (since it functions as a removable flash memory drive).
2004-09-07, 7:35 PM #22
Flash Cards > Floppies
but i still use both
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2004-09-07, 8:09 PM #23
nada
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2004-09-07, 9:01 PM #24
Quote:
It may not be too many years before floppy disks are joined by DVDs. Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently predicted the DVD would be obsolete within a decade.


oh no... not bill gates predicting something, it must be true. /sarcaism
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2004-09-07, 9:07 PM #25
Quote:
It may not be too many years before floppy disks are joined by DVDs. Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently predicted the DVD would be obsolete within a decade.


He also predicted that 640k of ram would be more then anyone would ever need.
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2004-09-07, 9:08 PM #26
Well they said obsolete, not out of use. They'll be obsolete the minute blue-ray or anything else comes, but it doesn't mean they'll be out of use. Floppies have been obsolete for many years. CDs have been obsolete since DVDs arrived.
2004-09-07, 9:28 PM #27
Quote:
Originally posted by Darth
CDs have been obsolete since DVDs arrived.


Perhaps, but CDs are still cost-effective for the amount of storage you get.
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2004-09-07, 9:35 PM #28
For that to be true, a DVD+/-R would have to cost 6.7x what a CD-R does.

They don't really if you go by average price...
2004-09-07, 9:41 PM #29
So maybe I'm wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. But CD-Rs are still reasonable.
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