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| Thread ID: 101747 | 2009-07-25 22:19:00 | 2 dollar shop buyer in a time warp | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 795199 | 2009-07-27 06:33:00 | OK OK, so floppies ARE used - but not so often, right? I'll keep an eye on the $2 shop shelf as I reckon they won't sell more than one item per month. Of course I could be wrong. :rolleyes: |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 795200 | 2009-07-27 07:53:00 | People still use floppies? Well I'll be #%$@X 'ed.Occassionally | Myth (110) | ||
| 795201 | 2009-07-27 08:31:00 | LS120 ? no but I had and sold a few zip drives, they were great. Floppy drives (3.5") were my nemesis in the 80's they never worked when you wanted them to. I threw out boxes and boxes of them (and 5'1/4"s) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 795202 | 2009-07-27 10:19:00 | OK OK, so floppies ARE used - but not so often, right? I'll keep an eye on the $2 shop shelf as I reckon they won't sell more than one item per month. Of course I could be wrong. :rolleyes: Just recently did an upgrade after power problems on a couples PC and didn't bother to connect the floppy as they had just about never used it. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 795203 | 2009-07-27 11:03:00 | Just recently did an upgrade after power problems on a couples PC and didn't bother to connect the floppy as they had just about never used it. To tell the truth, my desktop still has a floppy drive, but I disconnected it. I think its been 2 or 3 years since I used a floppy. By contrast this morning I ordered an 8 G usb stick (a last minute add-on to my wireless gear order). |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 795204 | 2009-07-27 11:07:00 | Heaps of people use Floppies still. At work, a lot of our really old backups are on floppy which we've never really gotten around to transferring to a flash drive... | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 795205 | 2009-07-27 21:27:00 | Heaps of people use Floppies still. At work, a lot of our really old backups are on floppy which we've never really gotten around to transferring to a flash drive... I wouldnt put backups on a flash drive (dont start) just put them onto a cd, heaps safer, or a DVD and make 2 copies |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 795206 | 2009-07-27 22:30:00 | I wouldnt put backups on a flash drive (dont start) just put them onto a cd, heaps safer, or a DVD and make 2 copies I have never ever had an error from a flash drive. Lucky perhaps? I do however shut down / close the flash drive before pulling it out of the usb slot, and I seldom use usb sticks for back up (only for transferring data). For back up I use extra hd's and DVD's. Back to the topic: I think it is admirable that people still use floppies. Obviously they use them because floppies do the job, and do it well. Personally I find them a pain - slow, noisy, bulky, and of course with extremely limiting capacity. But for text documents and other simple office / business files, they would have enough capacity. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 795207 | 2009-07-27 23:45:00 | I love floppies for BIOS updates, diagnostic utilities and SATA drivers for windows XP Sometimes it's also the easiest way to get ethernet drivers onto a PC. But I wouldn't use flash drives as backup either, heard too many stories of them just randomly dying (though this might only be cheap ones) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 795208 | 2009-07-28 02:03:00 | I haven't used them in years. When SATA drivers are required I genuinely find it easier to just burn a new Windows CD with the drivers on using nLite. Only takes 5 minutes and doesn't require connecting a floppy drive to the computer being reinstalled. Though thank God this is not required for newer OSs than XP... |
george12 (7) | ||
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