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Does your computer have a floppy drive?

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Hell yes. I use it to transport smaller files (drivers, etc.) to various backup comps that aren't on the network.

The unreliability of floppy drives/ media really irks me, though :|

JC
 
My desktop, no.
My laptop, yes.

I have to have one for the laptop for system BIOS and video card BIOS updates.
 
No floppy, always used the one on my laptop through network means. 🙂 Then came the day I needed it to install SCZI, Raid, and IDE drivers that needed to be run off of a floppy. :| I figured these annoyances come up enough to justify 7 bucks.

<== floppy monkey dance
 
Yes, I have a floppy on my desktop, and I use it quite often. Word and Excel documents for transporting to school mostly.
 
I use mine every once in a great while, though I have caught myself burning a 20k document onto a CD because I was too lazy to find a diskette

-spike
 
Yeah, my I have a floppy in my rig, I use it one time a week to back up my financial software, if it wasn't for that, I'd ditch the floppy 🙂
 
Came with a dell system. Both machines that has it (dell and the laptop removable) are collecting dust. I store all file that needed to be transfer on a network, and boot off my computer using CD-ROM boot disk.

Network rulez
 
i suddenly thought of this, we need floppy drives to update our system bios! or can we do that with cds now?
 
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