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    Don't copy that floppy...

    You won't be able to soon:

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    What we need is someone to invent a device that you can plug into a floppy drive and then access flash memory

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    I've got thousands of the damn things which I need to chuck, they certainly weren't the most relaible storage method ever devised were they ?

    Just for a laugh I found this lol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    Quote Originally Posted by Behemoth View Post
    I've got thousands of the damn things which I need to chuck, they certainly weren't the most relaible storage method ever devised were they ?

    Just for a laugh I found this lol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
    Check out the new 2009 version xD

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6wSg...eature=related

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    The slow death of the "floppy" or "diskette" began in 1998 when Apple decided not to include a floppy drive in its G3 iMac computer.
    No it didn't. The market share of iMacs was miniscule back then. The CD-R is, in my eyes what started the demise of the floppy - before USB flash was prolific, but when blank CDs were cheap enough that you just burn at new one at your whim.
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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    No it didn't. The market share of iMacs was miniscule back then. The CD-R is, in my eyes what started the demise of the floppy - before USB flash was prolific, but when blank CDs were cheap enough that you just burn at new one at your whim.
    The advent of cheap CD-Rs, yeah, probably. I remember the first bank CD-R's I bought ..... a box of 10 was £150. And no, that isn't a typo. £15 per disc.

    Mind you, the burner and software were £4000, so it wasn't exactly a typical household item back then.

    And Zip discs, etc, did their bit to bury floppies too.

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    The advent of cheap CD-Rs, yeah, probably. I remember the first bank CD-R's I bought ..... a box of 10 was £150. And no, that isn't a typo. £15 per disc.

    Mind you, the burner and software were £4000, so it wasn't exactly a typical household item back then.

    And Zip discs, etc, did their bit to bury floppies too.
    Yeah, I bought in at around the £15 per box of 10 (with jewel cases... oooh) mark. My 8x hi-speed Yamaha SCSI burner was awesome, too.

    As for Zip/Jazz disks? I had a Zip drive and I did use it a lot, but to me it's just a giant floppy disk anyway... (but not giant and floppy like actual giant floppy disks were, if you follow, which of course, you do.)
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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    Mine was a Yamaha CDR-100 (IIRC), and a 4x model. Reliable burning needing a disc sub-system with AV rated disks (didn't do T-Cal, thermal calibration) that caused buffer under-runs. Still got that Micropolis drive too, and that wasn't cheap either.

    And yes, I remember the big floppies. I've still got a load of stuff on PC format 5.25", and a load more on the old Apple-II format (136KB ??) discs. I used to use the 8" discs (on a Sirius, IIRC) but don't have any of then. I do still have some old mainframe jobs on optical mark cards and even some on ASCII paper tape for reader on a teletype terminal. Mind you, finding a terminal to load them from would probably require a museum.

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

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    Thats even worse than the original !

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    Whatever impact CD-Rs had, I don't think floppies truely died until USB storage took off. I've never liked the idea of using a whole CD to burn a few files to, and I think a lot of people my age feel the same - when I first got into computing CDs were affordable but expensive, so you used them for burning important data to that you needed to keep. Even when the price came down, I still couldn't see them as disposable resources, and I never considered them as an alternative to floppy disks! I know I was still primarily relying on floppy disks in 2001 - by 2003 I'd moved over to flash cards and USB pens.

    The one thing I was always surprised by was that minidisc didn't take off as a PC storage mechanism: CD capacity, tough outer casing to resist scratches, rewriteable... seems to me they would've made an obvious replacement to floppy disks...

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    The problem was that Sony didn't market the mini disc in the right way. That said CD's had all the market share for music anyway because people didn't want to buy all their music again, but like you I agree that there was a missed trick with the mini disc itself. Which is in a way a pitty as they took up far less space on a shelf than a CD in its case does.

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    Re: Don't copy that floppy...

    I have a stack (20+) of 3.5" floppy drives I took out of machines I scrapped.

    I'll wait for this story to be a few months old then I'm selling them on eBay as "retro" computer items.

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    Its because of all this retro talk that I want to build an old retro gaming PC for some old games I haven't played for 10 years, anyone got any Pentium 2 or Slot A Athlon gear lurking anywhere ?

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