someday we'll say the same thing about CD's and USB jump drives. times change, but feelings remain.
[QUOTE=Quark:;47014629]someday we'll say the same thing about CD's and USB jump drives. times change, but feelings remain.[/QUOTE]
I've already seen people talking about CDs the same way as floppy disks.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;47014974]I've already seen people talking about CDs the same way as floppy disks.[/QUOTE]
CD's and DVD's feel antiquated for me ever since my upgraded motherboard no longer supported IDE/ATA cables, and as such I've never never updated to a new drive since then (I've never even needed one, except for OS installation (in that case I mounted it onto a usb stick))
I'm still holding onto DVDs, probably because all the PCs in my house only have DVD drives.
The only Blu-Ray devices I have are PlayStations.
I did have to go around look around my house for CDs to play Vib-Ribbon with since everyone I know uses iTunes, Google Play, or Spotify for music.
Stores near me don't even sell CD-Rs.
I may just be old fashioned since I recently tried to trade in PS2 games at Gamestop, only to learn they stopped doing that a few years ago.
[editline]Those kids these days[/editline]
[QUOTE=Adarrek;47015212]I was cleaning my room and i've found a barely opened box of floppy disks and also a bunch of other ones containing some software.[/QUOTE]
I have a box of unmarked floppies and I have no idea what's on them because none of my computers have drives for them.
I was cleaning my room and i've found a barely opened box of floppy disks and also a bunch of other ones containing some software.
Still using DVDs, in fact I'm building up a complete as possible collection of old Doctor Who on it in fact. I'm only replacing DVDs where I deem worth it as well. Those old BBC shows made on videotape and on DVD are unlikely to ever be replaced as a matter of fact as there is simply no point in doing so.
This talk about CDs being obsolete feels strange considering that I haven't really been feeling that CDs were getting obsolete, though I suppose it makes sense now that I think about it.
I don't even have an optic drive on my PC, I just use flash drives to install OSes
[QUOTE=Skerion;47016471]This talk about CDs being obsolete feels strange considering that I haven't really been feeling that CDs were getting obsolete, though I suppose it makes sense now that I think about it.[/QUOTE]
The only reason they haven't been deemed "obsolete" is because of their use for audio. Its sort of interesting that we have two standards (CD and DVD) that are both dirt cheap, but the only reason the inferior one is still used is because its so ubiquitous for its original purpose.
And pretty soon we'll have Femtoprinted storage devices, such as 5D Superman memory glass.
I bought 30 3.5" floppy disks not 2 weeks ago. We still use them for a 1994 CNC machine. They're slowly gonna get super expensive though.
Sadly I'm a bit too young to remember the actually floppy disks. But I still remember bringing 3.5" floppy disks full of games to school to play Dangerous Dave and whatnot.
And I still remember the first USB drive I bought. 128MB Lexar Jumpdrive, it was about 40€ I believe, which ends up being 300+€ per gigabyte.
USB flashdrives might be the last "mobile" physical storage medium we have for a long time since it's as universal as it can be. It's kinda crazy.
The only thing I can remember using floppy discs for was a [I]Jeopardy![/I] game.
My dad works with computers, so he used to have a lot, but now everything's moved to CD/DVD, USB and online file transfers.
When it comes to oddball machines like classic Macs or Amigas it makes more sense to continue using floppy drives as people have been deigning ways to write disks on other platforms for years and disk emulators are still very expensive.
MS-DOS machines, sure, basically every disk known to man has been dumped using a computer and a Copy II Option Board and there's a million ways to emulate a floppy drive in software.
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