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Dell: It's Time Floppy Drives Go Way Of The Dodo
cahult:
quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
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.
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My web images aren
lazygamer:
When I weigh the arguments, I have to agree with the pro-floppy category.
Still there is something to consider. How long does it take to burn 1mb of data to a rewriteable? How long does it take to transfer 1mb of data to a floppy disk? Floppies are slow little bitches!
Floppies are these little failsafe things. They are the manual override when the big machine won't work normally! Isn't a floppy drive always more reliable detection wise then a CD?
There is no good argument to keep these around, but there is no good argument to get rid of them either. Why not invent a high capacity floppy disk that is totally compatible with old floppy drives(and has better access times)? Or you could make new floppy disks that work in modern disk drives that are totally compatible with the old floppies. Assuming any of this is possible!
psyjax:
quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
There is no good argument to keep these around, but there is no good argument to get rid of them either. Why not invent a high capacity floppy disk that is totally compatible with old floppy drives(and has better access times)? Or you could make new floppy disks that work in modern disk drives that are totally compatible with the old floppies. Assuming any of this is possible!
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I remember when the first iMacs came out, there was a company that made these ORB drives that booted both regular floppy's and ORB 100MB disks. The problem was that ORB disks just aren't popular.
I think the Zip disk should be standerdized but I guess IOmega is greedy.
Calum:
yes they are. IBM already tried a stunt where some of their floppy drives were capable of using quadruple density 2.88 MB floppies as well as normal ones, but their 2.88MB size floppies don't work in other disk drives so nobody gave a shit. plus, 2.88MB, who cares, compared with 1.44?
Kintaro:
quote:Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:
I LOVE FLOPPIES! why should we be denied them? i think the current situation is fine as it is. floppies are cheap, so are floppy drives, nobody needs to use them if they don't want to, but i do. i use them for a shitload of stuff, and so does my girlfirend. and if floppy drives start going out of fashion, a lot of the point of floppies will be lost for us, since we won't be able to save to floppies on one machine and transfer to another because most computers won't have a floppy drive). I think this is very sad. floppy drives weren't harming anybody and some of us will be lost without them. what's the proposed alternative to them? as far as i know nothing is as cheap that will do as good a job, and certainly nothing is as standard as floppies.
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Im with Calum, sure i could use UDF rewritables, but there not going to go in my Mac Classic are they?
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