wheres the floppy

[sho-dan]

Bill Gates proclaims-Death Of The Floppy 8/04 ( a computer mag)
due to the key chain-sized USB drives often called memorydrives,thumbdrives
etc. name brands are omitting them (started w /apple 1998)unless ordered
I say nay, the floppy is alive and well .how do u likes them apples b$g

[renegade600]

what is a floppy? :michaelan

Seriously, basically they are dead. I never use mine and did not even bother to get one on my laptop. I use a usb jumpdrive when I want to transfer files between computers. Holds alot more and more convenient. The only problem with it is harder to find under the mess on the computer desk. :D

[zipulrich]

Some of us use floppy drives quite often.

I work on other peoples computers every day, and many times a floppy is the tool of choice. Its amazing what you can carry on a disk, and often I sit in front of PC's that won't boot to anything but a floppy. Some older PC's don't even have a CD-Rom, but the owners still use them...and they all have floppy drives. Lots don't have USB (bye-bye thumbdrives).

An 'Emergency Reload OS Disk' I have will boot about anything with an OS...any flavor. Also, lots of computers don't have a CD burner - only way to save anything off them is with the floppy drive. I guess I could carry an external burner, but I'd have to install it first...and, without USB ports,....well, floppies are still all that and a bag of chips to some of us. Real workhorses. Slow, crappy, cheap workhorses - but they get the job done so we can go home. :)

[Edit: just noticed you guys are quite literate for your ages!]

[renegade600]

Some of us use floppy drives quite often.

[Edit: just noticed you guys are quite literate for your ages!]

So are you :rotflmao:

[enat66]

I use floppies to carry stuff to and from school. I haven't tried it but I am sure that the security systems would not like usb drives. (they lock us out of the start menu for pete's sake)

[zipulrich]

Try installing a RAID array without a floppy. Have fun! ;)