floppy disks

[levemircento]

does anyone still use floppy disks??

I havent used one for years, and just cant see the point of them anymore, are PC's still made with them?

they were funny werent they!!

 

[Stu DemonD]

I got one in my machine - certain drivers, in particular RAID, need to be added via floppy during an O/S install.

 

[Bushboy]

1.44mb of pure storage power

Couldnt even get a photo straight from a camera on one now! I remember the Sony mavika which had a built in floppy drive (was a huge beast!) and you would store the photos on the disk... would get quite a few on as well

 

[soap_dodger]

I've still got one in my PC, same reason as Stuart really.

Got an external one for my laptop as well, just incase.

 

[Si]

Both my desktop machines and server have one plus I've got a USB for laptop.

 

[levemircento]

1.44mb of pure storage power

Couldnt even get a photo straight from a camera on one now! I remember the Sony mavika which had a built in floppy drive (was a huge beast!) and you would store the photos on the disk... would get quite a few on as well

A signwriter friend of mine had one of those cameras, it was THE thing to have at the time and I think very expensive, possibly very early days of digi cameras.

I get pics sent to me now for some of the sites I do and they can be up to 3mb.

I didnt think there was any use for them in this day and age, but I can see that as in the posts above, there is!! also, I think that they are needed to update bios in some MB/s, possibly.

 

[Liam]

Some products still come with driver floppy disks, I've got one cos you never know when you might need it, there is still a lot of old pc's out there don't be fooled.

Although newer ones are dirt cheap many won't buy unless it fails.

Liam

 

[Jamie]

i got one in my desktop.

and a usb one

 

[jug]

i've got internal and external floppy drives, but only the 3.5" type.
i binned the 5.25" gear years ago, it was difficult to say goodbye to so many good DOS games.

when the shat hits the fan a floppy drive makes life much easier.

 

[custard]

got one as odd things come up where a floppy drive is handy to have

 

[The Negotiator]

No had one or needed one for years

 

[Hellcat]

I've got a communal floppy drive which I pass around wherever and whenever needed.

 

[dave]

i have no floppy drive, no cd drive and no dvd drive

 

[arc]

i have no floppy drive, no cd drive and no dvd drive

same as my laptop. its a pita when u need to flatten it and rebuild the os.

 

[custard]

i have no floppy drive, no cd drive and no dvd drive

thats the microwave dave

 

[smokeyjoe03]

There is a space in my tower for one and i'll be installing one later this week

 

[Helz]

My laptop doesn't but the PC does, however it doesn't work and for some reason you can read from the floppy drive but not write to it. Not that I've needed to for years anyway

 

[Trancendental]

however it doesn't work and for some reason you can read from the floppy drive but not write to it. Not that I've needed to for years anyway

Sure the disk isn't write Protected or the Drive configured to be read only to protect accidental writes to disk?

I got a Floppy Disk Drive. Every Machine I'm asked to build for someone gets an FDD as standard. Its great for when things go wrong and not even a bootable CD can save you.

 

[Chas Uno]

As mentioned already, floppy drives can get you out of trouble when all else fails. I still have one in my tower pc for that very reason, but otherwise it is unused for 99% of the time.

I also still have a Commodore 1512 5.25" external floppy drive that I used with my Commodore 64! And of course I still have the Commodore 'Datasette' cassette drive that took half an hour to load one game...

Thankfully I have a C64 emulator on my PC that loads games and stuff in the blink of an eye

 

[Helz]

Sure the disk isn't write Protected or the Drive configured to be read only to protect accidental writes to disk?

I got a Floppy Disk Drive. Every Machine I'm asked to build for someone gets an FDD as standard. Its great for when things go wrong and not even a bootable CD can save you.

It's not an issue with one of the many disks I have, I could have set something wrong on the drive but to be honest it's been in situ for about six years now and I haven't needed to write to it for a lllllllllllloooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg time so I'm past caring.