I still use a floppy drive....

I stopped putting one in my builds, I kept putting one in as I just thought of it as a formality to include a floppy drive in builds.

Then I realized I wasn't actually using it for anything so I just stopped.
 
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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 meth♦od (and when you're looking at 6+ figures, the hassle of using floppies suddenly isn't that bad).
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The factory I worked at few years back was floppy based for all the machines. It made specialist PCB in low numbers for a variety of things. They still used green and black display on the monitors aswells with so much screen burn you struggled to see when the screen was off :eek:
 
Got an old box of floppies containing DOS games under my bed. Also got a floppy lying around that has a strategy guide to the first harry potter game on PS1 in glorious .txt format. :D
 
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No but i do have a USB floppy drive gathering dust in a corner just in case ... not that i've used one since a floppy disk since the last time i played a game on my amiga 500 about 8 years ago :p
 
I don't have any computers now that have a floppy drive, but I do still have an external USB drive kicking about. It can be useful for those rare occasions when you need to boot a Windows 98 start-up disk or flash a BIOS on a computer that doesn't boot from CD for any reason.
 
5 1/4" double sided double density is where its at :)

Still got CNC machines at work that use floppy drives to restore parameters if the memory goes down. I've got a floppy drive and ribbon cleaned and sealed in a bag just in case.
 
This post reminded me that I still have a number of zip100 disks kicking about with old uni portfolio pics that I've not seen for years and even a Syquest exflier 230mb(!) disk with all sorts of unknown wonders that I will probably never see again :(
Having a quick mooch on ebay and it seems that usb zip drives still go for ~£20 too.

I also remember downloading the latest TFC patch - a whopping 20MBish from uni on the T1 line and it taking longer to copy to and from the zip disk than it took to download the damn thing :o
 
Most of our manufacturing robots have a floppy drive, but I cant say I've used one in years.
 
One of our sites has a few CNC machines in our machine shop that still have floppy drives. We usually just do data transfer from pc but if the pc ****s up its a job to set up another one with the configs etc and since they only have periodic IT support onsite the floppys are a useful backup
 
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