J
jaeger
Some of Sandisk's readers require XP drivers.
Some of Sandisk's readers require XP drivers.
B
bLaKeY
I work in a Graphic Design studio and we had to buy an external floppy drive
for our macs.
Not everyone updates their equipment as fast as they should (or could) and
floppy disks are still used daily.
Most profitable businesses have a 7 year time period before they are due to
update.
Also most of my PC customers still use floppies (with hundreds of stickers
on top of each other so you can barely fit it in the drive
) for smalljobs sent to us.
For a 'normal' PC user it is easier to use a floppy disk than create a Ram
disk or a bootable CD. Most people could insert a floppy disk. I could only
name possibly two people I know who could create a Ramdisk and only a few
who could create a bootable CD.
For the sake of a couple of packs of smokes, or a round of drinks an
internal floppy is very worthwhile.
Blakey
J
jaeger
So we're back to "interfacing with archaic machines". Is there anything
else? And BTW, "normal" PC users aren't building their own computers.
Anyone who does can certainly make a boot CD.
As an aside, the king of "normal" PC's, Dell, has stopped making
floppies standard.
M
Milleron
Huh?
Ron
J
jaeger
millerdot90 said:
You know how you can use a USB KB or mouse in DOS? This is called
legacy USB, basically using USB devices with no drivers. Most mobos
made in the last 1-2 years will also emulate a USB drive as something
else, meaning it fools the OS(DOS, in this case) into thinking it's a
floppy drive, hard drive, etc.
B
blackgold
Anything better than Ghost, either free or paying.
B
Ben Pope
Stephan said:
Apart from that the disk will likely be corrupt and/or knackered unless you
keep it in that lead-lined disk box.
When I had my Atari ST, floppy disks were brilliant - they didn't get
corrupted, they lasted forever, write after write after write, you could
still read. My experience of floppies in the last 5 years has been
atrocious. Every time I pick up a floppy, it;s corrupt to the point where
even a low-level format will not revivie it. They're absolute crap and all
deserve to be burned.
Bootable (El Torito) CDs emulate the A: drive. As can USB devices such as
CF card readers and many other devices when plugged into a modern
motherboard.
Floppies are useful because they are easy, but if I can do the same job with
a CF card reader I will use that. CF media is far superior to floppy in
almost all ways - speed, capacity, reliabilty, robustness...
Ben
B
Ben Pope
NoRemorse said:
Quicker over a network. If you or your school is not connected, shame on
you/them.
Ben
B
Ben Pope
R_Supp said:
Kind of makes your 100 bucks an hour accountant look crap for not investing
in a 50bucks 6in1 card reader.
Ben
B
Ben Pope
jaeger said:
"I have a LAN and the other computers have floppies"
Guess you're not paying attention.
Ben
J
jaeger
Yes, it was great fun. The arguments I got reminded me of watching a
"special" kid repeatedly bash his body into a door marked "pull".
E
ELVIS2000
Only $8 and you never know...
R
Roger Zoul
bp wrote:
::
::: In article <[email protected]>,
::: (e-mail address removed) says...
:::
:::: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop to
:::: a school computer, so I can print it out.
:::
::: Did I miss the part where the original poster was building a laptop?
::
:: here try this
::
:: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my PC to a
:: school computer, so I can print it out.
USB thumbdrive...
::
::: In article <[email protected]>,
::: (e-mail address removed) says...
:::
:::: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop to
:::: a school computer, so I can print it out.
:::
::: Did I miss the part where the original poster was building a laptop?
::
:: here try this
::
:: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my PC to a
:: school computer, so I can print it out.
USB thumbdrive...
N
Nom
Scott said:
They cost £5 - why NOT include one ? You don't lose anything by having one !
D
Dodgy
Fine if the floppy-less pc isn't you're only pc... But if it is you're
gonna have a few problems making that CD. :-D
I must admit I very very rarely use a floppy, but at times it's useful
for...
- Bios update
- Transferring a few files to a machine that's not on the network
(usually it's the NIC drivers I'm transferring and assuming it's not a
Intel 20meg driver package, I still can't bring myself to waste a CD
on 300K of drivers!)
Only the other night a friend asked me to help him install win2k onto
a brand new machine he was building which had a sata hard drive...
Needless to say an F6 3rd party drivers install was required and the
drivers he had on the supplied CD just didn't work... A quick download
from the net on my laptop and a floppy disk later... tada... working.
No cdr on my laptop, and I wouldn't for less that a floppies worth of
temp files anyway!
My question back to you would have to be...
Why waste a CDR on <1.4meg of files that are only going to be required
for 2 minutes and never wanted again?
Final thought - You know there's never a CDR about when you want one,
but you can always find a floppy... Usually in the box the CDROM came
in...
D0d6y.
D
Dodgy
LMAO!
D0d6y.
D
Dodgy
Unless you happen to be working with NT 4...
E
eddie
??
Don't buy a 10.00 floppy buy a 75.00 thumb drive and hope everyone you
deal with has USB.
yeah good one.
E
eddie
Have you thought about a network ?
D
Denny Salatino
****Scott said:
Scott, I aways keep both A and B floppies in my computers even if not
used a lot. the cost is near nothing.
I sometimes copy from one to the other for small files
or read files between them for comparing data on 2 disk's.
there are other reasons for keeping them on line and handy.
you may just wish you had put one in one day when you have a need for it.
Denny.