Poll: Are you sick and tired of floppies?

natto fire

Diamond Member
Jan 4, 2000
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I am so sick of floppies they are crappy unreliable and slow. Why the heck are people still putting drivers on them? Jeeez now I have to download the drivers!
 

geno

Lifer
Dec 26, 1999
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I took my 3.5 drive out a long time ago :) Never needed it since
 

Mday

Lifer
Oct 14, 1999
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there has not been a good replacement yet.

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zip drives have not replaced them.
ls120 did not
sony recalled their floppy replacement after a short time.

but there is a new replacement coming, ls240, which can use OUR existing floppy disks and put 10 MB on them. needless to say the reformatted 10 MB version will be incompatible with regular floppy drives.

btw, ls120 drives can read and write faster to floppy disks than regular floppy drives.
 

Elledan

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Jul 24, 2000
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The PC's at school have only a floppy-drive and no CD-ROM, ZIP-drive, ls120 drive or anything else.

1.44 MB... I used to put whole games on that amount of space when I was still using my 286 :D
 

Shmorq

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Aug 10, 2000
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<< Why the heck are people still putting drivers on them? >>

That annoys me as well since I don't have a floppy drive in my computer. But it's always nicer to check the web for the latest drivers anyway, so it's not too big of a hassle unless you're on dial-up and the drivers you need are for you modem.