03-09-2003 02:31									#61
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Yeah, I suppose so if you can get the card...but then it would be getting a bit pricey for what you need...

	03-09-2003 02:32									#62
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About 4 or 5 years ago, I used about 10 floppies to transfer 100's of megs between two non-networked, non-USB, non-CD-writer computers. I created a spanned zip and then ran back and forth to copy all of parts to the other computer so I could reuse the floppy again.
I pretty much ran up and down the stairs all day.

I'm glad we now have our computers networked.

Which also means I don't really use floppies anymore. Close to never actually, because on the rare occasions I go to university I could simply mail the thing to myself, or temporarily upload it on my webspace.

Thinking about this, I kinda regret getting that floppy-adapter for my smartmedia memory card. Especially so because it needs drivers, so can't just be used on any computer.

	03-09-2003 02:34									#63
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Merc,

thats what i do, send it to my Yahoo mailbox, and than access it from work (no floppy on my work PC)

	03-09-2003 02:43									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Asher For my programming job, I had to port a program that was from 1992, stored on floppies. 15 disks, four of which were corrupt. It took me three days, but I managed to restore all of the information. Floppies.

Technology hell! I hate corrupt floppies. The only thing worse is getting a 28800 dialup modem to download a 150 mb mod for half life.

	03-09-2003 02:54									#65
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That sounds like pure masochism JW

I would love to know just how many floppy disks I have smashed in fury when they corrupt...

	03-09-2003 02:55									#66
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I like the floppy disks that were actually floppy. I think they were 5 1/4"

Believe me, when you've had to use tape players for data storage. Floppys are like 1000 times better.

	03-09-2003 02:58									#67
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Every computer has floppy disk drives. Only the very new machines dont. For the sake of interoperability, unless many put their necks on the line, we're going to be stuck with the things for a while.

	03-09-2003 03:03									#68
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I like the floppy disks that were actually floppy. I think they were 5 1/4" Believe me, when you've had to use tape players for data storage. Floppys are like 1000 times better.

They used to have 8' and 12' (I think) floppies, held about 360 k each, but yeah, when you've used the families tape recorder and taped over Dads Elvis cassettes to save data, you tend to see the positive side of floppies

	03-09-2003 03:05									#69
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but it must be conceded they have little use other than boot disks. That's all I really use them fore. If I ever have to move files in DOS I can now do it because I have 2 hard drives. the move command works with 2 hard drives.

	03-09-2003 04:26									#70
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I installed Win XP from a set of floppies. I don't see whats wrong with them.

	03-09-2003 04:33									#71
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...and Office too I hope

	03-09-2003 04:34									#72
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison ...and Office too I hope

I installed Office from kazaa!

	03-09-2003 09:14									#73
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quote: Originally posted by monkspider I installed Win XP from a set of floppies. I don't see whats wrong with them.

Huh? Why would you do that?

The Windows XP CD boots...

	03-09-2003 09:40									#74
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Not to mention that floppies are one of the worst storage mediums for stability...I can't count how many floppies I've had become corrupt.

Um -- ANYTHING you touch becomes corrupt -- or so I heard.

	03-09-2003 09:44									#75
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The BF's only corrupt sexually, mentally he's still fine. He's a hard one to crack.