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#1 Neon

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Posted 17 October 2005 - 06:25 PM

Ok here is a question, With more removable media offering more space and for less and less money, will the floppy disk die SOON?

I know it will go eventually but at the minute it's easy and cheap to use, and cheaper than other solutions.

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Posted 17 October 2005 - 08:14 PM

i think it is being phased out, but it wont be gone for quite a while still

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Posted 18 October 2005 - 03:59 AM

It'll never die out... I still use mine frequently... helps out with small school projects and such.. my old high school still runs 98... Jump drives aren't supported with 98 you have to d/l drivers and the teachers gripe

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Posted 18 October 2005 - 07:19 AM

Its more than phased out, the floppy drive should have died 2 years ago even,
I havent had a floppy drive in my PC for over 3 years now, USB Flash Drives replaced floppys the second they came out.

Remember when you'd put a floppy in your PC and save files to it, take it with you to Class put the disk in and half the files are unreadable ad you'd almost get an F on your report card trying to convince the teacher its not your fault ?

Floppy's are the most unreliable piece of **** to ever spin on earth.

Edited by Visentinel, 18 October 2005 - 07:21 AM.


#5 ShadowFox

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Posted 18 October 2005 - 01:32 PM

I disagree... I never had a problem out of a floppy unless I did it on purpose for the fact that everyone elses project was cool and mine sucked... so I took a quick magnet or two to it and ran my fingers across the disk... That's the ONLY time I've ever had a problem out of a floppy.

Well not, my brother did get one stuck in the drive once... don't know how, but I got it out :P

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 12:13 AM

LOL, i still used it only until i got my jumpdrive. Sad, yes. :)

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 12:33 AM

Ya know if it is too big to email to myself, I can always put it on a 3 cent CD. With the cheap prices you can get CDs at, if not free off of a couple rebates together, it is just as easy to burn a CD. With a 52x burner it goes realllllly fast too.

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 12:36 AM

LOL, I got 100 cds or free after a mail in rebate!

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 03:32 AM

Cd rebates rule :)

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 10:36 AM

I use my usb stick or a cd/dvd...depends on what, my floppy drive is to fill a space

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 04:15 PM

and to think they still put two spaces for floppy drives in newer computers... phased out? I dunno.. they look alive to me, if they were no longer necessary then they would eliminate them in new machine models... but what about when you don't have a CD-Rom drive that auto boots... you need those setup disks.

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 04:26 PM

View PostShadowFox, on Oct 18 2005, 10:32 PM, said:

Cd rebates rule :)

LOL, it was at Office Max.....100 cdr's for free! And usually they cost like $20.

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 06:11 PM

I havent had one in about 3 years. They did annoy me lol, half the time by the time i got to school the floppy was corrupt - not sure if they dont like the cold or not :) - You inserted the disk and it'd tell you, Disk in drive A is not formatted, format now?

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 11:23 PM

It takes too long to format...just slap a huge rerigerator magnet on it, that'll do the trick nicely...:P

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Posted 20 October 2005 - 03:17 AM

LMFAO magents are your friends... but not if your a computer :P




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