Poll: Are you sick and tired of floppies?

[natto fire]

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]

I took my 3.5 drive out a long time ago Never needed it since

 

[Civ88]

I'm sick of MR floppy.

 

[dc]

ok...

 

[thereds]

 

[TripleJ]

Now Viagra's here I couldn't be better.

 

[randomlinh]

i am, but i still need it on occation.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I may use mine once every six months.

 

[Mday]

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]

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

 

[Wedesdo]

i use it when i have to do a reformat. that's it

 

[Torghn]

There is a very good replacement for the floppy. It's called a CD-RW.

 

[randomlinh]

uhh.. what's this about the 10MB thing

 

[Shmorq]

<< 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.