I have a stack of 100 of these multicolored POS'. Love em.
Honestly the only times I needed Floppies was Doom 2, Flight Sim 5, and Installing Raid drivers after reformatting on my other PC
They are really useful for small files in emergency situations with your PC
What about old as fuck games which probably wouldn't work on any modern operating system?
[QUOTE=Elstumpo;21581862]What about old as fuck games which probably wouldn't work on any modern operating system?[/QUOTE]
DOSBox.
And nothing of value was lost.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21581879]DOSBox.[/QUOTE]
Oh thats right.
They better still sell dem drives.
[QUOTE=starpluck;21574552]The slow death of the "floppy" or "diskette" began in 1998 when Apple decided to not include a floppy drive in its G3 iMac computer. [/QUOTE]
They can't seriously tell me that happened because of apple. It was because the CD-Rom got invented, and then that star wars game used it as one of the first games, and everyone bought a cd drive only to play that game.
So, star wars killed floppy drives.
I didn't even know people still made them. Still, its amazing how far technology has come. I bet in 10-20 years we'll stop using DVDs and flash drives and move onto something else.
I have a box with about 1000 3.5"'s in it in my garage somewhere.
I love the sound the drive makes when you're writing/reading something.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qz9a8kYYkA[/media]
Well, they were becoming outdated once we got flash drives and accessible online storage. It was just a matter of when they'd be phased out.
Of course I have some of those buggers lying around like others do from early school projects. I even have an 8 inch floppy from my father's days in college.
I think I should plug in my old floppy drive just for nostalgia.
Just get Card a card reader like SDHC Memory they are mega cheap these days.
[QUOTE=Jack_bud;21583572]Just get Card a card reader like SDHC Memory they are mega cheap these days.[/QUOTE]
You don't get it.
I used to carry around floppies for personal data. Now I carry a 16GB flash drive, which I've loaded with all kinds of applications and files. It's light years beyond floppies, but I'm still nostalgic about floppies. If you've never spent a long time using floppies, either for product installs, BIOS flashes, as Windows startup disks, or any of that good shit, you've never been a computer user. I used to have a floppy disk with 200 or so 320x240 porn stills. It was glorious.
Death of a Legend
[QUOTE=codenamecueball;21583736]Death of a Legend[/QUOTE]
Hopefully they'll still be widely available on the used market.
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Flash drives only hold data without failures for around 4 years.
The first self-burned CDs I have already are dead. They look funny now.
My ~17 year old floppies still work.
I only used it once, to play some text based Tarazan game.
I have a stack of them though, I wonder what my dad put on them 20-25 years ago.
I'm ganna hook up my old computer and check it out.
Time to upgrade that floppy drive to a hard drive :quagmire:
[QUOTE=emPiRe14;21578210]What will be the icon to save now for Microsoft programs?!??![/QUOTE]
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I just started my "Floppy Disk Drive Megastore" too =(
Fucking finally.
Well Sony are focusing on Blu-Ray
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;21581886]And nothing of value was lost.[/QUOTE]
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I beg to differ. :(
Well fuck, my pc doesn't even have a floppy drive.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21583612]You don't get it.
I used to carry around floppies for personal data. Now I carry a 16GB flash drive, which I've loaded with all kinds of applications and files. It's light years beyond floppies, but I'm still nostalgic about floppies. If you've never spent a long time using floppies, either for product installs, BIOS flashes, as Windows startup disks, or any of that good shit, you've never been a computer user. I used to have a floppy disk with 200 or so 320x240 porn stills. It was glorious.[/QUOTE]
How does not using floppies some how mean you're not a computer user? I've been around the time of floppies but the time was long ago and it's as simple as that.
[QUOTE=pentium;21587736][IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/P2243767.jpg[/IMG]
I beg to differ. :([/QUOTE]
Them stopping making floppies isn't going to make all your floppies magically disappear, that's not how it works.
I used to use 1.4mb floppies to copy porn pictures from my mom's dial-up connected computer to my room computer when I was 11.
No more copying that floppy.
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