floppy disks

[Workaholic]

I have a floppy drive in my computer but that's only because my sister needs it to transfer work to her school. The computers there have no USB ports and no CD/DVD drives. Alternatively you could use ZIP disks at the price of something like £10 per 256MB disks.

Oh yeah and some libraries only allow you to use floppies only.

Myself, I use a 512MB Corsair Flash Drive and when that's being used I also have a digital camera (as a card reader for the xD card inside) and also my 1GB HiMD Music Player. Oh and an external drive (which is slighty bulky - oh well!)

[EvilMunky]

had to copy 50 meg onto a server in a dmz with no axs to any other servers / ftp servers / cd rom drive or anything. SO i had to use floppy disks.

Took me hours to find enuff floppys and then longer to find a workstation with a floppy.

[DavidM]

Yes

[kirkabus]

I haven't used floppy disks at home for years, Ive been using LS120 drives but now as they have died a death I've stopping using either. I've overcome the need for floppies as I slipstreem SATA drivers into my windows builds. I still have a floppy disk drive in a box of bits for when I need to do bios upgrades - I've had bad experiences with windows based utilities.

I've been irradicating floppies in the office all new pc's do not have them installed as they are an additional cost. The only time I use them are again for bios upgrades and that rarely ever happens in the office.

With all the alternatives floppies are really redundant, it's just a shame more motherbords do not have the boot from USB option. My shuttle does, my NF7-S doesnt :/

[kirkabus]

[double post] -mods delete this...

[iranu]

yes - bios flash and sata drives - until I can boot off a usb flash stick then they will always be around

[BEANFro Elite]

I just keep them for BIOS flashery purposes and in case of emergencies where nothing else works...

They're the absolute last resort...

[mmh]

i havent used one in ages, my laptop thank god doesnt even have a drive and on my last computer it took me 3 years before i realised the floppy drive i recycled and installed in it wasnt compatible... thats how little i use them!

[specofdust]

Floppy? I don't even use CD anymore

Anything below a few GB's gets shoved on the USB key/FTP/hosting, anything above can be DVD'd, or again, sent over TCP/IP.

[Knoxville]

nope, not used one for over 4 years.

[scottyman]

i keep a box of floppys around for dire emergencies - especially when clients have machines which won't boot from cd or usb stick

[Blackmage]

yes, you never there has been one time where i did need to install XP from a floopy boot

[LWA]

Yep used one yesterday to flash my Radeon X800 GTO2 to an X850

[midzt]

Havent used one in aaages, couldnt fit it on my comp when i built it. and can't really store much on it anyway. flash is so much better.