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Dell: It's Time Floppy Drives Go Way Of The Dodo
Calum:
cds are not more environmentally friendly. cds are disposable and usually single use.
and you most of you miss the point: floppies do not make any difference to your life if you don't like them. just don't use them. Making them redundant will cause all sorts of ag for those of us who do use them however, especially as there is no viable replacement that does the same job.
i really feel as though i am repeating myself here. if i am not making myself clear by now then there's no point trying.
Pantso:
quote:Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:
..especially as there is no viable replacement that does the same job.
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How about Zip drives and disks? I believe it's a viable replacement of floppies, especially 100 MBs ones. :rolleyes:
pkd_lives:
Calum - I would really like to understand. I do not wish to throw out the ability to use floppy drives, and Linux distros should still offer the capability to boot from a floppy drive. But there is no need for them, they were a bastard solution to a problem in the first place.
1 disposable 640MB CD = 400 floppy disks
1 rewritable 640MB CD = 4000 floppy disks minimum.
I really cannot see why you need a floppy disk, except as a boot medium on old computers.
And to dispute the environmental aspect, well the numbers above speak for themselves. However it is actually possible (although not done anywhere on the planet to my knowledge) to recycle CDs - you cannot recyle a floppy disk (only the outer casing), and the metal spindle inside. And it is rather toxic when incinerated.
If you want it it should still be available for use - that I grant without reserve or we will be following a tactic used by M$, but there is really no need to have it shipped as standard - if you want one you can buy it yourself.
Fett101:
quote:Originally posted by Linux Frank:
The Floppy disk is the single most unreliable storage system I have ever used.
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Oh yeah. That too. I have lotsa floppies from less then a year old. about 0% of them work.
Master of Reality:
Well... i see absolutely no reason for CDROMs. I havent put a CD in my desktop computer in at least a month... i might have once to burn a CD so i could play it on my discman when i went somewhere. I dont see any reason at all to ever have a CDROM, all the little files i need to transfer can easily fit on a floppy, and anything bigger i send over the ether/internet. I only need one floppy to boot most *NIXes and then dl all the packages and do a net installation. There is no need for these mammoth beasts in our computers, and they just generate more heat in our computers.
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