"Wow, times change... Somebody asking what's a floppy drive."
I needed some last week and asked the tech kid at Staples if their house brand was decent. He had no clue and said he'd never used one. I'd better get a pen drive soon.
>>13
Cheap but high-quality CD-Rs (Ritek) are at less than $0.10 per 700 MB disc. That's a penny for 70 MB, or 1/10 of a penny for 7 MB.
Unless you are buying floppies at a rate of lower than $0.0002 per disk (50 floppies for a penny), floppies lose to CD-Rs (which lose to DVD+-Rs at less than $0.40 per 4.7 GB disc).
Hey 14, ok, here is a counter to your point.
the advantage of floppies is the drives are dirt cheap
like $9 for the drive.
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Anonymous2007-01-25 17:39
cd rom burners are like $20
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Anonymous2007-01-25 17:45
I still have drivers on floppies. ERD's are easy on a floppy and the drives always work as opposed to CDROMs which might often be burners or DVD drives requiring an install and/or burner software too.
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Anonymous2007-01-25 18:21
Floppies haven't been floppy in almost 30 years. Ergo, insta-fail, end of thread.
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Anonymous2007-01-25 20:09
>>21
Open one up. The actual media inside is floppy. YOU FUCKASS.
Just curious, I'm using XP Pro less than a week and just made an Automated System Recovery backup file and floppy. Don't you Windows users ever do that with XP or an ERD with W2K?
I'd hoped to created a bootable DVD for the purpose but one look at the Windows support page made it look like a real PITA.
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Anonymous2007-01-26 22:26
If XP does something stupid I boot the installation disk and make it fix my system for me. It gives you that option, although if you have any alternate OS's installed be prepared to replace the MBR again.