Bye bye floppies

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I read in the news today about a high street retail that is ceasing to sell floppies after the remaining stock runs out.

The shocking thing was I forget they only hold 1.4 Megabytes. Then I remember the 760k floppy. How did we cope?
 
I heard this on the radio this morning aswell :p

I think it's good tbh, no one uses them anymore. The only thing they're good for is flashing a BIOS.
 
the-void said:
I read in the news today about a high street retail that is ceasing to sell floppies after the remaining stock runs out.

The shocking thing was I forget they only hold 1.4 Megabytes. Then I remember the 760k floppy. How did we cope?
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760k? i remember when 180k was double density lol. thoses were the days :cool:
 
The were also good for flinging. Hold onto one corner, pull your arm back, get up a good swing and let go. Those babies soar high and they can't half travel as well. (Only advisable to do this on a large open field. they really can fly!)
 
the-void said:
The were also good for flinging. Hold onto one corner, pull your arm back, get up a good swing and let go. Those babies soar high and they can't half travel as well. (Only advisable to do this on a large open field. they really can fly!)
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Or in a small office on a Friday afternoon after a few shandy's at la pub ;)
 
^ Haha yes.

I remember the days when school work was always on them and it took like 3 for one essay ;).
 
I installed a floppy on this PC but I never tried to use it until I needed to flash the Bios only to find out it didn't work.
I managed to flash it using the software but was a little worried incase it went wrong.
I won't bother getting another as most of the time the discs never seem to work anyway.
 
Still needed for BIOS flashing, much safer then doing it in Windows tbh

I own the only PC in my house at home that still has a floppy drive, sad times :( :p
 
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monkeypants said:
Inserting and ejecting them make the coolest sounds your PC will ever make though.
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Yeah; I took an old floppy drive out of a machine so I could make that noise without having the computer load the floppy disk.

I have a floppy disk drive on my current computer and I have only used it a few times, now I don't think it even works.

I like floppy disks because they seem more tough than a CD or DVD, i.e. they haven't got a shiny side. :p

I might put one in my next computer, but they will be really gone by then. :p

Angus Higgins
 
I haven't used floppies for years, due to my careless nature I would usually find my data was corrupt when it came to opening it at school/uni...
I'm sure I've still got Starlord on floppies though, a whopping 3 disks, awesome game. Ran too fast on my Pentium II back in the day though, I hate to think what it would be like now... *searches for external floppy drive*
 
I remember when floppy disks were 8" across and really floppy. There were also hard sectored versions with an index hole per sector instead of just one as used by soft sectored drives. Wang was still using these (in many different versions) for software distribution for some ranges of machines into the 90's. And don't forget the first PCs only had 5.25" floppy drives, no HDDs at all.
 
the only uses ive found is for sata/raid drivers when installing windows and flashing the bios. apart from that there too slow and unreliable.

MW
 
My first encounter with floppy drives was with the C64. back then the drive cost twice what the computer did !!!. I also had some floppies for the spectrum+3. these disks wernt cheap so only had 10 to mess with. easily fit 5 or 6 games on though, and I never saw games released on the disks.

i still ave a ******** of 3.5 floppies though from the Amiga. I still use floppies on the pc for bios flashes. untill someone makes a usb standard for all bioses to support, we may never see bootable usb drives so the floppy could be around a little longer ;). its bad enough that theres no standrd for all bioses to support usb keyboards, having to mess with the legacy switch, and only then when a ps/2 keyboard has been hooked up to get to it ;).
 
most mobos can boot from a flash disk now a days and more and more are making the bios flashing available on a flash drive...

it doesn't really surprise me that floppy are gone imo
 
FrankJH said:
Useful for installing RAID drivers on Windows install also (why cant MS get this section of the install to read from USB stick???)
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Or at least from a CD! After all it's just booted itself from CD.
 
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