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Dell: It's Time Floppy Drives Go Way Of The Dodo

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Pissed_Macman:
Floppies are great for using with old computers. I'm just saying that the newer computers don't need them. Do you just want them to keep using floppies until we colonize Europa? The longer people include them the more dependant people are on them. We need to ween ourselves off of floppies!

cahult:
Nothing I do involves documents smaller than 1 MB, not even images, unless I save them for web use.

When I had use for floppys, I used to be frustrated because the lack of room on the disc. Thank all the gods for CD-R and CD-RW! Now I can exchange lots of images at a time instead of flooding my target audience with stupid floppys.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by Linux Frank:
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.
--- End quote ---


this is not the point i am making. what i'm saying is that if floppies no longer are found on most PCs it will not be feasible to download stuff to floppies in, for example, a web cafe, or at somebody's house, and then take the stuff home. I simply do not believe that web cafes will equip every PC with a cd writer or a zip drive, plus none of these is standard in the way floppies are. Say i save to a zip in a web cafe (that'll be the day!) then i take it home, but OOPS! it's a zip250 disk and i only have a zip100 drive! well shit, huh? or i save to a zip100 drive, go round to mate X's house and he's got a CDROM and a fucking 'mountain backup device'! useless! not only that but if web cafes et c did have CDRWs on their machines i bet they'd all have some crap proprietary software on them, like Ahead inCD, which is great so long as you have Ahead's software installed on all the windows computers you will ever use the disk in, but if you stick stuff on the CDRW using InCD (currently quite a standard in CDRW i understand), then pop over to your linux machine, you won't be able to recover the data from it, i tried last week.

There's no universal replacement, and there's nothing that's even come close to being as inexpensive, therefore there's no reason to actively phase them out. If demand truly is dropping then that's another story, but i do not believe that is the case. Ask a non computer type, who uses floppies for word documents and saving webpages and emails et c, he/she'll be horrified if you say that you're taking away their floppy drive and they'll have to get/learn about a whole new rash of stuff just to do the same job (actually, they might not be too bothered, now microsoft have groomed people to expect this sort of thing).

No, there's no good reason to get rid of floppies. this sort of heavy handed decision from on high that we are supposed to believe is for everyone's greater good just do not convince me.

preacher:
I agree whole heartedly with Calum and Master of Reality. Maybe its my linux background speaking, or the fact that Im an old school kind of guy and run old ass computers, but I still use the floppy a lot. By the way why do you have huge images that are over 1 mb cahult? Maybe my web design side does this, but I prefer to keep images as small as possible, preferably under 100k.

xyle_one:
my images & graphics range from 1mb - 300mb. unless its for web. but i do not do a lot of web graphics, most of my stuff goes to print. cdrw is my freind in this case. when i have to transport several 50mb images to the print house, or to the clients office. i cant use a floppy for this. but i see no reason to get rid of them completely.

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