Poll Do you have a Floppy in your PC Case?

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Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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Yes. I equip all my PCs with floppy drives. They're just extremely handy. And if you want to transfer a 10KB file when the network is down, floppies are everywhere - at least here they are. Ah, the benefits of checking what's going out for the trash at a corporation. Sometimes they throw out a full cubic foot-sized case of fully functional floppy disks. Always one around when you need it. Sure a USB thumbdrive is nice, but I've only got one of those, and I can never seem to find it right when I need it.

Handy too when you're servicing an ancient PC whose CD-ROM firmware hasn't been updated since it left the factory many years ago, and it can't see any of the 8x and faster CD-RW's you keep around for quick boot discs.
 

RobCur

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Oct 4, 2002
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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
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ls-120mb floppy drive is next to useless!!! 99.95 GOD!!!
I'd buy 2 dvd burner with that and it be 10000000000000000000 times more useful :eek:
 

Sunbird

Golden Member
Jul 20, 2001
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I often have a floppy in my pants when there is nothing arousing around, oh wait, this isn't ATOT............................ :confused:
 

Oyeve

Lifer
Oct 18, 1999
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5 1/2 is floppy, 3 1/4 is diskette. Which do you mean? Suprised no ones caught this. :)
 

amol

Lifer
Jul 8, 2001
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Yes, I have a floppy drive in my computer :)

It's actually a floppy + 7-in-1 card reader :D

I find it easier to just give a cheap floppy away instead of let a friend borrow/take my USB flash drive.