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WaWAR_FA:
so i go to circuit city to buy some floppies to make a XP bootdisk incase anything really fucks up.

i get the disks home and open the box.

great formatted for mac..

no wonder they were so cheap.

so i go to the site and get the images and put my floppy in.

or try to.

hum, no floppy drive on the side.

not on the other side either...

not of the front...

not on the back.....

ah shit........


WHY THE HELL DO YOU MAKE A COMPUTER WITH NO FLOPPY DRIVE!!!!!!

hm_murdock:
because every OS out there now boots off the CD, and that was the last big argument against dropping floppies

M51DPS:
I haven't used a floppy for a long time, mostly because I only used them to transfer files and now I have a LAN. Today files are just getting too big. The last Mac to use floppes, I think, was the G3 All-in-One in 1998. You can always buy a USB floppy drive though.

Zombie9920:
Even though I have a floppy drive in all of my comps I never use the damn things. Floppies suck ass. They are slow, they only hold 1.44MB of data(really about 1.39MB) and they are so un-reliable. I remember trying to flash a BIOS to an old motherboard I had via a floppy. The ROM file happened to be on a corrupted sector of the disk and it fucked the whole flash up. Thankfully the board was able to come on if there was an ISA video card present in the system. It would come on and boot from a floppy(no BIOS post screen), so I used another floppy and booted to DOS from it and flashed the BIOS from the new floppy. Anyways, I was able to recover from the bad flash. If something like that happened to alot of people they wouldn't know how to recover it. Luckily new flash utilities verify the integrity of the entire BIOS file before they flash nowadays. The mother fucking disk that caused me the hassle was good the last time I used it. For some mysterious reason it got bad sectors all the sudden though.

I've lost important documents due to a good floppy gone bad. Honestly, I'm glad to see the floppy drive go. I'd rather boot from a CD anyday(they are so much faster and more reliable). If I want to flash a BIOS I just add the ROM and the flash utility to the bootable CD(it is easy to make a DOS bootable CD).

CD's hold up to 700MB of data, they don't get bad sectors, they don't fuck up(unless you physically damage them), they are cheaper than floppies(you pay about 15 cents a CD), they are portable like a floppy and most people with a computer have a CD drive. CD media is alot more logical to use than a floppy.

I also like little USB memory sticks. They are small, they hold a hell of alot more data than 1.44MB(the smallest one you can get is 50MB and they go past 250MB), they are compatible of any computer with a USB port(regardless of wether it is PC, Mac, etc and regardless of the OS) because they require no drivers to use. When you plug one in it functions as a hard drive. Of course, they don't get bad sectors either. They are pricey compared to CD media but they are really small and they can be trendy(you can attach them to a keychain, a necklace, your shoestring, etc.).

Killing off the floppy just makes one less legacy thing new PC's have to support. Jobs was smart and killed the junk things off a long time ago.

[ September 23, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]

Canadian Lover:
Why don't you burn a backup?

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