I still use a floppy drive....

Still use floppy disks all the time, as well as building up disk drive interface circutry. Ah the joys of still actively developing for an old 8-bit computer!
 
Not had floppy or optical media in my pc for years now, only thing i keep getting caught out on in when i need to update a bios.
 
No, why on earth would you still use a floppy when an 8gb USB pen is a few £
Don't usually have a DVD drive plugged in either. Allthough it did go back in to burn a copy of win8 to dvd. Sooner I buy a mobo with USB boot, the better. Then DVD drive can go in the bin as well.
 
I still have a floppy drive in one of our machines, and a spare gathering dust - I still have a few floppies lying around with some old files on it (I copied them to my machine a while back).

IIRC a lot of factories still use floppies for some very expensive, but specialised machines, I think some of the carpet making looms were still using punchcards well into the 90's, and still use floppies now (as the patterns aren't that big), I vaguely remember reading there are also still a lot of CNC type machines that still use them in various places as it would require completely replacing the machine to change the input method (and when you're looking at 6+ figures, the hassle of using floppies suddenly isn't that bad).
 
Some old guy my Mum knows uses them on one of his old style Electric Organs (Fnarr-fnarrrr!) for something, I seem to remember him having hundreds of the things in boxes, he also had a cool Mechanical Piano that used paper punch-cards (Now that's old-school computing!).
 
Oh that reminds me, about 9 years ago I was looking through some of the missuses floppies, I see one labelled Doom so I figure I would pop it in and play.... I look on the floppy and all I see is a shortcut to Doom, lolol
 
I got a USB floppy drive with an old Dell laptop, still have it. Also have the full boxed set of Win 3.1! And a laptop using it, and a laptop that has no battery or hard drive, just a cd driive that runs on Backtrack - I used to use it to crack networks back when they were WEP.
In fact, there is a substation near my house and it's still WEP - has two broadband lines, but they are pretty slow. The password for both of them is "Freddy".:D
 
Viper² said:
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Probably either some old game, or something he uses needs Windows 3.1, as per my earlier post there are still quite a lot of bits of industrial and hobby machinery that uses old hardware, either for an interface such as custom IO card, or to run software/drivers that don't run on newer hardware.
 
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