No floppys!

Ftp, or Usb. No the usb jump drives dont need softwear
they work well, and because they act as a hard drive you
can put programs on them and run them from there.

I reciently bought a buch of floppies and they have all broken,
the dont seem to read, so i dont use them.

I still remember an old movie with "The Nerds", where one of them was a computer freaky and he was trying to teach how to use a computer to a friend. He said something like this:

"The first thing to do is to choose a floppy".

while he opened his coat with a bunch of diskettes inside. Funny to see it today

At work we have a network of NT 3.51 servers. USB is not supported. If I download a driver for a nic card replacement, floppies are the only choice. The network isn't connected to out regular network, nor do we want it to be. Only one computer needs the floppy however. I can load it in the floppy and open it up.

CoolAJ86, do you remember 8" floppies?

By the GODS... Someone help this man...
jschiwal, are you OK ?

Servers running NT 3.51... and they work... Congratulations.

8" floppies... Holy ****... I saw an 8" floppy once... never used it. (because I am not that old )

Anyways, does anyone remember the storage capacity of those monsters ? >= 360 KB ???

I have one floppy that I'm using to hold a tarball of the Madwifi drivers along with the net.ath0 init script. Other than that, the rest are blank and pointless to me.

I realy use floppies anymore, but at my school they are still popular and I would use them, if there was a floppy drive in my laptop. Today i use a pendrive, but i plan to buy a usb floppy drive, as my pendrive isn't supported by win98 computers (funny it is supported by GNU/Linux, so don't say it doesn't have the best hardware support).

It is a little sad to think about the time, when programs where distributed on a single floppy.
(i remember downloading a borland pascal compiler for dos, the zip file contained to disks so that they could fit on to floppys in case your computer did only have a single sided floppy)

As for 5 inched diskes, i don't have them, and have never used them

lol - I am surprised that I seem to be the only person who still uses 5.25 inch floppies! - I think they are very useful - Especially if I don't have any 3.5 inch disks spare.

I really hope someone will "come out of the closet" and admit to still using them! - I don't want to be the only one!!!

Laurence

No wait, I use the 5.25 floppy too!! I have a good stash from the old days, and they can be quite useful at times. I even use some of the 360kb!!

IMO, Zips were a mistake, even less reliable than floppies. I went through three drives in as many years, and each one took disks with them on their way out.

I love zip disks. I have never ever had one get corrupt.

Allthough I do find it amusing when people tell him how much 3 1/2 floppies suck because they fail. I look at the disc, it was about 10 years old. Of course it will fail, get a box of new ones which are pre-formatted, I like them for limited things. Such as boot discs for Parition Magic, and Windows boot discs. Thats about it, the rest I use my 128 mb usb key. What I want is a 1 gig usb (thumb) drive, I would never need another CD.

And about cd-rw's, get a high speed burner and a high speed rw cd. Most are limited to 4X , at least the ones I have seen.

Floppies are only useful for something like flashing a BIOS on a system that can't flash online. My data is much too important to trust to a floppy, sooner or later you will loose the contents of one, I did early on in my computer experiance when there were no cd's or hard drives to backup the floppy to so I lost some important files one day when the disk decided it didn't want to read anymore.

Lately I wait until I have 700 Mb or 4.7 Gb of info to save. CD's and DVD's.

But for a quick transfer of 1.4 or les Megs.. a floopy.
Funny someone entered a message about flashdrives. I recently picked up a 256Mb USB 2.0 for some files. I would prefer a larger one that would would work.. like 1Gig. Tiny protable.. and bootable in some cases.

But I haven't bought any new floppies for over 6 years. ( I bought a lot ) Still have 8" and 2 drives.. Which reminds me.. anyone know where I can get a controller card for ..

I think I am almost fully CD and DVD for data storage. I mean .. how many floppies would be required for a 2 gig download? (2 thousand plus.. ) yeah ok..
but how much time swapping? at say 3 secs a disk.

humm math fun anyone? 2Gig = ~1423 floppies (1.44Mb)
4270 sec. (no transfer time, perfect copies every time.)
1 hr 11 m 9 s. Humm not too bad. But the disks are still blank. All you did was put them in and take them out. Hope they were prenumbered.

And we all know how accurate a 30 disk backup is when it's needed. Disk 28 or 29 is always faulty. (if it wasn't within the first 5)
Not to mention download times.. with all that swapping T1 will seem less then 56k.

And aren't CD fun? Frisbies, coasters.. mirrors.

pffft. Floppies, I just use ftp. The only thing I use 5.25 floppies for my oooooooooold school computer games. They're awesome

My favorite was Hero's Quest (by Sierra)

I sue floppies all the time, great place to store html, and php files, and some oldschool games.

What happens when you sneeze somewhere within a mile of a floppy and it looses its data? Thats why I quit using them. I use 3.5" mini cd's when I don't need a whole 650m and they fit in floppy holders for 3 ring binders, etc.