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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 1492/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Personally, I'll be happy to see Floppies gone, and replaced with perhaps USB drives instead. While as I stated I haven't used floppies myself in a long time, I get calls from clients a bit saying that their disk isn't working. I'm not sure what they expect me to do about it (either in person or on the phone) but I usually have to tell them that floppies are unreliable and that their disk has failed. A lot of people still use floppies as PRIMARY STORAGE which just boggles my mind. The amount of people who lose really really important documents cause they're on a floppy that failed... I try to tell users that they need to back up to a computer or something, but... *shrugs* Of course, I know from experience that there's a problem with USB drives too.... in particular, my Mum's partner keeps losing the damned things cause theyr'e so small. (And no... putting it on a string around his neck does not help at all...)  My Mum considered getting an iPod shuffle for him, then she saw the size..... (and so now he's getting a full blown iPod). |
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Surlent サーレント Level: 49  Posts: 783/1077 EXP: 863920 For next: 19963 Since: 03-15-04 From: Tower of Lezard Valeth Since last post: 16 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| The problems are not floppies, but the laziness people often have. If you have a very old computer and no burner, it may be another thing, but every semi-decent computer has a CD rewriter, and though it might be hard to save 100 gigs of As for me, I'm the only one from all my friends who backs up his data. I'm doing that every two weeks; the most important stuff fits on a single DVD what costs me 15 minutes with Nero plus some minutes to check eversthing after burning. And I also might want to get an USB stick w/ 512 MB. This might be nice; plug in, move data on that, plug out; but when I check my money bag and often empty bank account ...  |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1190/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| The little cover on the 3.5" disks was made so you don't need sleves to protect them. It really does help, but not all the way... Although I've yet to have a problem with them just sitting in a box. As for backup, I only have 2GB of music on my iPod, so why not use the other 16  ? (Note that the 20GB measure is done in metric gigabytes, not the binary one) |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 279/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by BMF54123Actually, they may be unreliable not in spite of the technology having been around a long time, but because of it. The focus nowadays is on writable CDs and DVDs; Floppy disks and drives are, by and large, considered a thing of the past; therefore few new floppy disks are being manufactured; therefore the ones that are still around are not new (including the ones you can buy at a store; they've probably been sitting in warehouses or on shelves for years). Floppy disks most likely were considerably more reliable in their heyday, but those same disks are old, dusty things nowadays (and dust, on a cartridge where the actual data storage part is readily accessible, is ungood). Originally posted by BMF54123All of the failed in the same manner? That sounds like it might be a problem with the disk drive; though it doesn't rule out the possibility that all the disks had the same problem, especially if they were all kept together. *shrugs* |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 8193/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| I use them for booting an OS... ...that's all the uses I had used them for. Althought I did use them alot back in the 486 days, where the HD space limited things. I remember being able to fit four-five pictures on one disc... yes we did draw alot back in the day. In Paint.  I better dig up some of thoose disks. You would be so surprised how you can actually use a damaged disks, as long you give it a run in scandisc/dick checker. |
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Jesper Busy, busy, busy. Level: 69  Posts: 2134/2390 EXP: 2856000 For next: 13743 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden. Since last post: 176 days Last activity: 79 days |
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| I've used a floppy *once* within the last two years, and that's for installing the GC-to-PC-gamepad adapter I got two years ago. Even then, I remember it taking two years for me to discover that the floppy drive on my old Compaq desktop was broken (the first time I used it), and I got that one almost five years ago now. I remember feeling a bit puzzled when the original iMac came out seven years ago, removing the floppy drive. The answer wasn't really clear either - USB keydrives didn't exist, next to noone had broadband or a LAN and CD-Rs were just coming out. But since the alternatives exist now I'm surprised it's still around. |
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KsoftFusion Paragoomba Level: 15  Posts: 35/71 EXP: 13389 For next: 2995 Since: 06-19-04 From: I don't know, gimme a map. Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Floppies used to be useful and I always used them, until I got a CD Burner. I emptied my floppies, reformatted them, and sold them (Used Floppy Disks: Good Condition: only 5 cents a disk!) Now I have a handy dandy 256MB USB key that kicks a**. The only thing I use floppies for is boot disks now (and transfer to my brothers old 486 since it's not connected to the network and the CDR's don't work on it) |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 3516/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Tarale Heh, I did that back when I had a 486 with an 88MB hard disk. I learned not to pretty quick though. I want one of those USB drives but they cost money.  It also kinda sucks when you work with Win98 systems a lot (thankfully I don't anymore, but most of the school systems used it last year), since you have to install drivers for them. |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1195/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker Not usually... just that Windows 98 didn't support all of USB's features, so it often fails on generic mass storage things. |
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Rydain Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42  Posts: 486/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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| I don't ever have to transport data from my computer to another one that isn't hooked up to our home network or available via other means (e.g. FTP), so I don't use any sort of removable storage. | |||
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 7127/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Ah, I remember when I had to reformat my old 486. The good people at IBM sent me a backup and that was very nice of them. The bad news, of course, was that the backup came on 35 floppy disks. Imagine how fun THAT process was. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 3533/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I imagine it was a lot like booting Windows XP off 14 disks. Had to use the recovery system to fix this computer in school, and it wouldn't boot off a CD.  Not only that but we had to reboot like 4 times during the process. Not fun! (Why couldn't they just put CD-ROM drivers on a disk instead of the entire program?  ) |
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BMF98567 BLACK HAS BUILT A SILLY DICE-MAZE! GO! Current list of BURNING FURY >8( recipients: - Yiffy Kitten (x2) - Xkeeper Level: 53  Posts: 673/1261 EXP: 1094149 For next: 62970 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blobaria Special Move: Rising Meatloaf Backhand Combo Since last post: 21 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by Vystrix NexothWell, I tried two different floppy drives on two different computers, with the same result. I think they all just mysteriously failed in the same manner. They were all different brands, though (they were old hardware driver disks that I had reformatted), so...jeez, I really don't know. |
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Surlent サーレント Level: 49 Posts: 787/1077 EXP: 863920 For next: 19963 Since: 03-15-04 From: Tower of Lezard Valeth Since last post: 16 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Iomaga Zip drives also tend to break in some cases, or they get the fatal click of death, thought they are fare more reliable than an old floppy, indeed. But the prices and sizes should not be compared with a normal CD-R The same thing is said about certain CD-Rs, if they are not from Verbatim, Sony or other known brands. As for me, I already burnt a lot of CDs from a cheap manufacturer without problems. I'm having a stack of 50 pieces of them left here, too. (edited by Lezard Valeth on 03-02-05 07:46 AM) |
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