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What would YOUR excuse be for putting a floppy drive in your machine at all?

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I don't understand the hatred of and vitriol being spewed about floppy drives.

I do a lot of field service work and the floppy drive provides a quick and handy way to bring a lot of computers back to life. I can carry a bootable floppy disk with all the DOS commands I need in my shirt pocket. Try that with a CD!
 
as my school computers don't let me access to the usb port so I have no way of getting work from my laptop on to the school computers for print🙁

I would have bought a usb hard drive key ring thingie or use the memory stick on my laptop with adapter but no access to the school pcs🙁

I am all networked up at home though so no problems there. I hardly ever use the floppy at home though. If I'm lazy and can't be bothered to plug in my network cable to my laptop😛

 


<< I haven't used a floppy in YEARS. but then again I use a Mac and Macs are ahead of their time. Trust me, you don't need a floppy. >>



Aw... How cute, a genuine user! Bet he also believes the commercials on the Home Shopping Network 😉

I use it for flashing BIOS, updating firmware, Drive Image, installations, rescuing data from a machine on which Windows got messed up again, etc.
 
I use floppy everyday. There's certain critical things I refuse to keep on my hdd. And not everyone else has a zip if you want to exchange files hand to hand. It's just faster and simpler to use for small files than a CD (which is not as durable, ie surface scratches).

 
The floppy drive provides an additional vent to let air in, otherwise the three big exhaust fans I have will cause the case to implode.
 
My universal boot disk works well. And it makes for easy transferrring to older systems. Ones that can't read CD-rw disks (yes, I have a few of those)
 
Because every case I've ever seen has a spot for a floppy drive and leaving it empty looks more lame than having a floppy drive there.
 
In the last system I built I needed a floppy for 2 things:

1) My Win98 CD is not bootable
2) My network card drivers are on floppy

Once the network card drivers were installed I have had no use for the floppy at all. Not entirely sure why the floppy is still in the machine. My main machine that is running WinXP has no use for the floppy drive in it at all. I am fairly certain there has never been a disk in the drive. But then again, the machine just wouldn't look right without it. They tried to kill the floppy with the LS-120 drives, but it will linger for a few more years before you start to see them actually disappear from machines.
 
every NIC i've bought has come with drivers on a floppy. How am I supposed to download drivers with out a working NIC!!!
 
Why not? It's ten bucks and you never know when you might need it. I use mine frequently for a very small file backup.
 
it's 10 bucks..


and i rely heavily on my floppy drive. i have tons of boot floppies, linux, unix, etc. i have dos disks, partition magic. drive image, dosNtfsPro, QNX, BeOS, trouble shooting disks, virus cleaning disks, bios flashing 🙂

edit: ahh yes, raid drivers.. lol and also when you actually NEED the floppy and dont have it, you'll remember this thread 😛

floppies rock! 😀
 
Why did I put one in? Well, that's easy - cause I didn't pay for it. If someone else is spotting that $10, what do I care? 😀
 
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