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Dell: It's Time Floppy Drives Go Way Of The Dodo
preacher:
quote:Originally posted by cahult:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/030205/tech_1.html
About time, Apple got rid of them 5 years ago! Who needs floppys today? Is there a floppy mafia which makes money on using these suckers?
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Yeah Im gonna waste a 700mb CD so that I can store 10-40kb images. What a stupid idea. Not to mention the fact that CDRW isnt nearly as reliable as I would hope. Besides I have pc's that dont even have cd roms.
Fett101:
quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Yeah Im gonna waste a 700mb CD so that I can store 10-40kb images. What a stupid idea. Not to mention the fact that CDRW isnt nearly as reliable as I would hope. Besides I have pc's that dont even have cd roms.
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I always just use the same CD over and over till it's full. Badda bing, badda boom.
Calum:
great. a workaround. isn't that what windows is made of? what if a floppy works fine and there's no need for a workaround? floppies are not harming any of you and they are cheap as chips, so what's the fucking problem?
Pantso:
I can't say I miss floppies. As a matter of fact I never use them any more (since my iBook doesn't have one) and have copied their contents in Zip disks.
pkd_lives:
Floppies are redundant and should have been fazed out years ago. I hate them, I can see no point in them. I can think of only one use for them, and that's as boot-up options for non-CDROM bootable Bios' (which already contain a floppy drive).
Saving small images on and transfering files to other computers. I can do this faster using an e-mail service. Spend $1 on a rewritable CD, not only is it cheaper, gives you more space, but it is better for the environment.
The Floppy disk is the single most unreliable storage system I have ever used.
DIE DIE DIE - ROT IN HELL YOU ENVIRONMENTALLY UNFRIENDLY, UNRELIABLE, LIMITED STORAGE MEDIUM. I have better things to apend my $10 on.
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