Bye bye floppies

waso_dude said:
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
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a lot of new boards have the ability to flash straight from the bios also:)
 
My current workplace still have to have floppy drivers(albeit external usb ones) due to clients backing up their accounts on a floppy disk.

I havn't used one out of work for years now.
 
Massive Attack said:
i have one in my current system purly for bios updates/ raid drivers, just sits there with the same disc in, day in day out
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Same here, and that has got be the main reason why these olden goldies are still gonna be around for a few years yet to come.

Who cares about THAT high street retail shop anyway, only ppl who know nothing about computers shop there, as don't know any better. :rolleyes:
 
mysticsniper said:
Who cares about THAT high street retail shop anyway, only ppl who know nothing about computers shop there, as don't know any better. :rolleyes:
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dont knock THAT shop - if nothing else its worth a little comedy value at their pricing structure

Even though I never ever buy there I sometimes browse to kill a few minutes
 
I havent used a floppy disk at work for a long time, then the other day one of the engineers came in saying their digital camera wouldnt copy to the computer, so i said i'd take a look and asked where the USB cable was to plug it in?

He said it doesnt have a cable?

I was like WTF?!1

Then he showed me and this camera was so old it actually had a floppy disk in it and then you had to shove the floppy into the computer to copy the pictures off.

I think this camera is quite possibly the first digital camera ever, it is about the size of 2 bricks stuck together, and weighs the same amount, and its maximum resolution is an amazing 0.3 megapixels!

I told him to use his phone to take pics as they would be 5 times the resolution.

Heres a pic of it, i call it "the beast":
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mikeymike said:
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Ahh I remember that, one of my mates back in Junior high had one of those and it was huge, that was back in 1998, in fact he probably got the exact same model as the one in pic!!

I still have 5 floppies in use, one for Raid driver, one for Bios files and flash utility, one for memtest86, one for Ghost, and one for DOS boot disk.

Just because the evil place doesn't stock them anymore doesn't mean you can't get anymore floppies, I'm sure there will be plenty in your local comp shop or on eFay.
 
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sorry to ask but why do you people use floppy's for flashing bios, i always do it with a cd, u press the button (forgot wich) on the main screen when u start the pc, it then searches on a floppy, if it doesnt find one it goes searching on a cd for the flash rom...


Only thing i've used a floppy for is raid drivers as intel failed to make them on cd or installable in windows (only driver u can download asks for a fdd when started and puts drivers on the floppy)...
 
i cant remember the last time i used a floppy drive.
Now all i use is 512mb usb sticks.

I wount be ordering 1 when i build my next pc thats for sure!
 
The thing is the company has 3 very modern digital cameras, like 5megapixel+, yet the engineer was still trying to use that ancient thing, i really do despair sometimes.
 
I still use Floppies all the time... Well, not all the time, but certainly every so often.

I use Floppies to copy the odd file or two over to/from my Atari from/to my PCs.

For the larger files, I use ZIP Disks, and the smaller ones I use Floppies.

Heeeelll... I remember when I upgraded from SS/SD to DS/DD and I thought "Things couldnt get any better".

Has anyone actually managed to get hold of an ED Drive & Disks?
 
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