When's the last time you used a floppy diskette?

[amdhunter]

A 5 1/4" floppy floppy? Or one of the little hard plastic floppies?

I used a 5 1/4" about a month ago. I still have the drive on my desk. A regular 3.5" I haven't used in about a year or two.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

I seriously can't remember the last time I used one of these. It's starting to get that way with CD's for me anymore.

This, although I did use an installation CD recently (motherboard)

A more interesting thing which might "shock" some people is - Ive never used a DVD

For the longest time, I had an ancient PC I got before DVD players became mainstream, and by the time I bought a new one, DVDs were on the way out already, so I just skipped from CD to Bluray

Not that I use it much either... Everything is digital or moving towards that nowadays

 

[dawp]

I can even remember the last time I used tape drives. It was 1989 on a Commodore PET.

I use dat drives every week to do backups on 5e switches.

 

[Schfifty Five]

8 inch, Never used one of these.
5 & 1/4 would have been mid 90s.
3 & 1/2 would have been when I updated my bios on my socket 754 board board after I bought my first athlon64

Yeah you have. :sneaky:

 

[Schfifty Five]

The last time I drank too much whiskey.

:thumbsup:

 

[randomrogue]

The 3.5 inch variety? I lose track but probably 2000. The actual floppy? The 1980's. I haven't used a DVD drive in years.

 

[Born2bwire]

Probably about 10 years. I used a Zip drive until about 7 or 8 years ago.

 

[mizzou]

2003. I'm pretty sure I used a 3 1/2 then before switching full time to a USB storage device

5 1/2? Probably late 1980's. I'm pretty sure it was Law of the West on the Apple IIe

 

[djnsmith7]

5.25" - Early 90's
3.5" - Late 90's

 

[rayfieldclement]

When I was typing up a resume/qualifications brief at the library I used one 3-5 years ago....

 

[dennilfloss]

Nuked & Booted a laptop with a floppy before installing Toutou Linux and giving it away last year.

 

[tcsenter]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2276156

 

[Number1]

I replaced my last PC with a floppy in early 2007. Honestly, I don't remember the last time I used a floppy.

 

[Tsavo]

I still use them as back up. I've got 478 of them in RAID configuration.

I am just that hardcore.

 

[grrl]

Last year. I helped a friend transfer a bunch of old data from 30 or so 1.44mb disks. It took us a while to find a working floppy drive though.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I don't remember the last time I touched my DVD drive.

This. None of my desktops have DVD/CD drives in them anymore. I just have an external one I plug in from time to time.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Two years ago for an instrumental analysis lab to retrieve some data. The software to interface the gas chromatograph and the computer wouldn't support anything beyond Windows 95, and that's about how long both the instrument and the computer had been there.

 

[Ichinisan]

Get pissed off every time I need to update a BIOS or something and I spend hours wasting discs or trying to find a USB drive or SD card that is recognized properly by the system.

 

[SagaLore]

a what

 

[dbk]

must've been like 7 yrs ago when I had to update the bios on my old nforce3 mobo... also, I've never uttered that word, "diskette", in my life

 

[BurnItDwn]

Yeah you have. :sneaky:

hah,

You give me too much credit. It's actually only 2 inches.

 

[jupiter57]

8 inch, Never used one of these.
5 & 1/4 would have been mid 90s.
3 & 1/2 would have been when I updated my bios on my socket 754 board board after I bought my first athlon64

Yeah you have. :sneaky:

hah,

You give me too much credit. It's actually only 2 inches.

Got me beat!

 

[SparkyJJO]

Not too long ago. I was having to load Server 2003 R2 and it required a floppy for the RAID drivers.

 

[coloumb]

Last time a couple of months ago. I work in the semiconductor industry [supporting tools we sell to Intel]. Quite a few components we replace have calibration data saved on floppy diskettes. It's not worth the engineering effort to redesign the components which were designed ~15 years ago.

I'm amazed that Intel is still using ~15 year old technology to make current generation technology

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Never