WHEN WILL the floppy disk 3.5" die out?

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dullard

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Originally posted by: TuxDave
There's always Zip drives.
Not bootable, expensive disks (almost everyone has dozens of free floppies sitting around - the one and only benefit of AOL marketing - but few people have zips), only have them in ~30% of computers I use regularly, I have one at home but it is on the computer that is usually turned off - making Zip drive use a 1 minute task to boot it up. I think Zip drives will be replaced by the USBkeys faster than floppy drives will be. By the way I voted 5-10 years.

 

DaFinn

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What? You mean floppy drives still exist... I would not have had a floppy drive for 2 years now, if my lappy would not have come with one.
 

DWW

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I quit using floppies just a little over five years ago. I don't have -any- left. I backed up any relevant data from them and burnt them to CD-R. Overtime I found that floppies would just unexpectantly die, and my house, being dusty, seemed to do that very often. I've yet to burn 1 "coaster" CD-R either. *shrug* maybe I just buy quality media ;)

Anyhow, many major motherboard manufacturers now have tools so you can flash the BIOS while in Windows. While this is not viable for my BSD machines, its okay because I've never had an incentive really TO flash my BIOS--that a new version offers some better hardware support or this or that.
 

xxAgentCowxx

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Originally posted by: SagaLore
There needs to be a replacement to floppy, but is still like floppy.

I was hoping Clik disks (pocketZip) would eventually make it big. Price needs to come down on the disks though.

Those things were awesome!!! but i left it in my pocket and it got washed :(
 

hevnsnt

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Originally posted by: pcmodem
Built my girlfriend a PC during the fall of 2003, without a Floppy Disk Drive.

Her Becker CPA class that began in January... their software includes a freaking FLOPPY disk!

Becker uses the floppy disk as a copy-protection for the CPA software on CD.

-PCM

Been there done that with Beckers.. Ughhh.