Random Poll: Do you have a floppy drive on your newest PC?

[iRONic]

Sure do, beef stew.

 

[SmoochyTX]

no

 

[xtknight]

Yes. Still serial port, and parallel port for printer as well. Still IDE cd drives. All HDs are SATA. Mouse is USB, keyboard is PS/2.

 

[Howard]

Yes.

 

[KoolDrew]

No.

 

[lokiju]

I always had to add one in when installing XP but now I no longer need to with Vista

Yea!

 

[Eos]

2 in row now without a floppy drive. Although, this frackin' gigabit ethernet card I just bought came with a 3.5" driver disk... Luckily Windows knew what it was.

 

[SlitheryDee]

nope

 

[Mrvile]

Nope.

 

[Parasitic]

I do not pay extra for archaic technology.

 

[Anubis]

yes

 

[Shadowknight]

Yep, since when I need to reinstall windows I have to load the RAID drivers from floppy. So it's not a waste of space (not that it was in the first place), I replace the regular floppy drive with a USB combo drive so I can transfer files from my digital camera to my computer using a smartmedia reader.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Yep, it's about 12 or 14 years old, but still works okay. It came with my first PC and I keep moving it over to every new box. Every great once in a while it comes in handy.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Yep, it's about 12 or 14 years old, but still works okay. It came with my first PC and I keep moving it over to every new box. Every great once in a while it comes in handy.

Same here. Only it's 11 years old. I painted it black to match my case. :thumbsup:

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I still have mine. I bought it because I knew that one day I would have to use it. And I did.

 

[cubby1223]

Does a floppy drive that I fried 5 years ago when I incorrectly connected the power cable, count? I've never bothered to replace it, but I always put a floppy in when I put a computer together for others. They're cheap and once in a blue moon people really do need them.

 

[brtspears2]

Yes, I just keep moving it to a new computer with each upgrade.

 

[fatpat268]

Nope, haven't needed one for years

 

[kalrith]

Not on the laptop, but I like to have one on my desktop for memtest and bios upgrades. I just don't like doing that stuff in Windows. I recently paid $4 to get one to match the black case I got 4 years ago. I just got sick of that ugly beige face messing up my color scheme!

 

[fierydemise]

No but I keep one around just om case

 

[Juno]

no, the motherboard i bought come with sata drivers so i don't need any floppy drives.

 

[nageov3t]

yes.

it was only $10, the case as space for a floppy drive, and I do use it occasionally (for drivers when doing OS installs), so what's the down side?

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: MyStupidMouth
nope.

 

[Born2bwire]

Yes. I still have the unnatural fear that one day I may need to use a boot disk. Damn you 640K of conventional memory!

 

[imported_Cameron]

Negative