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Dell: It's Time Floppy Drives Go Way Of The Dodo
rtgwbmsr:
I haven't put one in any system I've built within the last 2 years. A waste of space IMO. I didn't know they even put them in new computers!
I actually own the first Mac not to come with a floppy - the PowerBook G3 Series ("Wallstreet") You could buy them, but they didn't come with the computer in any standard config.
Calum:
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.
jtpenrod:
It really doesn't surprise me that Dell is doing away with floppies. :rolleyes: You have to remember that these systems are made for Winderz lusers. It's a tremendous waste to have to burn a CD just to save a few MBs (or even 10s of MBs). (But how diligent are most Winderz lusers about doing back-ups in the first place? :confused: )
Then again, I'm running Linux. If I can't tar.gz something to fit on one floppy, I can always "split" them up into pieces that'll fit on a floppy, and later "cat" them back together again when I'm ready to reload the file(s). Betcha can't do that with XP!
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Pissed_Macman:
calum calum calum calum you just won't let go.
Master of Reality:
I use floppies all the time. I use it to boot up OSes, boot into a windows computer with Toms root boot disk and format the drives. Of course this doesnt really affect me though, as i have several floppies drives in a box over there <-- including some 5 1/4 drives.
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