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steppinthrax

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Jul 17, 2006
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Just curious?

I worked at a hospital back in 2006/2005, they had clinicians that still stored PPT files on several floppies.
 
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Exterous

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Yep. At the company I just left we did (and they still do) our phone system backups on floppy. Hicom 300 from sometime before 1999. Research had equipment that used 5.25". Had to stick with it because the company that made it was no longer around and all that knowledge was lost and it was too expensive for us to try and figure it out
 
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FerrelGeek

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Think the last floppy I used was for an old DOS game for my kids, a good dozen or so years ago.
 
Kadarin

Kadarin

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I think the last time I used one was over 10 years ago, as an emergency boot loader disk.
 
dullard

dullard

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I use floppies a few times per year at work. We have a piece of equipment that is far too expensive to replace and it is programmed via floppy and saves its data on a floppy.
 
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JBT

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My main system has one sitting in it, its not hookup though. The last time I used it was for some TiVo modding. Can't recall why I needed a floppy for that...
 
skyking

skyking

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I have several VoiceMail (VM) :p systems out there running on DOS 6.22, and the VM program is built on floppies-- 12 of them.
 
dawp

dawp

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Jul 2, 2005
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not a floppy but we still do our backups for the switches on dat drives. we even have some 1a switches that use reel to reel drives. and changing out a disk drive is a 2 man job.
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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The hospital I worked at still used them when I worked there and probably still does, for certain pieces of medical equipment. We even had to try to recover data off one once.

I used one at home not that long ago. I had to reflash a sata controller and you had to use an MSDOS boot disk for it. The joys of playing around with hymem.sys and emm386 to reserve enough memory. We have things easy now days. :p
 
DigDog

DigDog

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i once had a roommate who had a kid, 7yo.

kid goes through my stuff, comes up with a LP record. doesnt know what it is. felt old.

but no, i havent seen a floppy in .. idk, 20 years?
 
Imp

Imp

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I don't even know where I can find a 3.5" disk in my house. IT had a few in a computer testing area, and the building I worked in was fold enough that there were floppies in the back of storage cabinets.
 
BurnItDwn

BurnItDwn

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Not here, we also no longer get those retractable cup holders since we have all been switched over to laptops from desktops (that way they dont have to give us offices/cubes, and we can cram 5x as many people into a building)
 
pete6032

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Last time I used one was probably to update a bios, which, for a long time now has been possible to do straight in Windows.
 
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