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Bob696:
--- Quote from: "Rich_P" ---You think... :wink:
They're still common at College in my ICT course! :shock: :lol:
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We have over 600 PCs at school including laptops and I think there is ONE with a floppy drive in it and thats in the technicians room for use with setting up old software. All the laptops have a floppy drive as well come to think of it but you can have the floppy or a dvd drive in so the floppy drives are in a pocket of the case some where.
3 desktops at home and not one with a floppy drive and not had one for 18months or so. I do have have a couple of 12 inch floppy disks knocking around somewhere I use as a teaching aid once a year.
CDRs Vs Floppy. Given the price (10p CDR, 14p DVD and 16p Floppy) I have no problem with adopting a 'disposable society' attitude :oops:
JD LWB:
Also, you can't accidentally wipe a CDR by leaving it near something magnetic (speakers etc) so that when you need it, the disc is completely useless.
TDi90:
well, we still have a few machines running them at school too.
i must say i love the things. i think they are great little pieces of plastic.
i may sound old fashioned, but i do think they are very useful, and i like em.
R
Evilgoat:
Floppies are the easiest way of moving small files temporarilly between two machines and are the ONLY way to get RAID drivers into XP during an install. Also if you have older PCs about theres a risk you cant boot from CD and only really recent machines will boot from memory stick and its an arse to do :)
As for old hard drive
*remebers fondly the DEC RL02 10Mb removable hard drives. 19" rack mountable, 6U and cleaning the heads with a toothbrush. Marginally faster than floppy*
Ans then there was the 20Mb 19" full height rack we pulled arat where the whole thing was the hard drive. Then 3 hours later had to use the truck to remove the head magnet from the fork lift, then 5 mins later had to bolt the bumper back on the truck. When we moved out we left it stuck to a wall having latched onto the girder behind it.
BrumLee:
--- Quote from: "abyssdj" ---floppy disks are !Expletive Deleted! useless anyway! unreliable crap useless bloody plastic square bits of crap!!!!!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
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They're not any good for scrapping the frost off your windscreen either :x at least cassete tapes came in a useful box :lol:
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