Who uses floppy disks anymore?

[40Hands]

Seriously. 15 disks with one ~1 MB tiff image per disk. WTF? Then she wanted me to sit there and transfer and convert them to JPG! She is a paralegal and she can bill the client for that time...no fvcking way I am going to waste time doing that. (I will nef instead) I told her I would convert them but I brought down the portable floppy for her to copy them...

Down with floppy disks!

 

[Juice Box]

and once again...a member of AT finds a way to completely turn a woman away from themselves.... :roll:

you DO know what she meant by "converting her images" right..... 😉

 

[Whisper]

The only one I've used recently had the drivers for my SATA hdd so that it could be recognized during the WinXP install.

I have a few games on floppy as well; I really should change them over sometime before they disappear forever.

 

[PingSpike]

I use them for memtest and a few other things sometimes. Occasionally I'll use them to copy NIC drivers over to a PC so I can get it on the network. Even then though, they often don't have enough space to hold the drivers and you can use a bootable CD for the diagnostics stuff so they're pretty obsolete.

On top of that...floppy drives are really really slow.

 

[meltdown75]

i actually have the 6-disk win XP startup set around somewhere, and i use them for mobo flashing.

 

[shilala]

I had to look for pics on floppies yesterday.
From a huge pile, I found two that should have had the pics I needed.
One was broken and the other held mostly corrupted files.
Fvckin stupid floppies.

 

[40Hands]

Originally posted by: Juice Box
and once again...a member of AT finds a way to completely turn a woman away from themselves.... :roll:

you DO know what she meant by "converting her images" right..... 😉

Sh!t. I never catch on to those signals.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: BroeBo

Originally posted by: Juice Box
and once again...a member of AT finds a way to completely turn a woman away from themselves.... :roll:

you DO know what she meant by "converting her images" right..... 😉

Sh!t. I never catch on to those signals.

:roll:...by admitting you would rather nef than help a woman "convert her images" I am not surprised....

 

[40Hands]

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: BroeBo

Originally posted by: Juice Box
and once again...a member of AT finds a way to completely turn a woman away from themselves.... :roll:

you DO know what she meant by "converting her images" right..... 😉

Sh!t. I never catch on to those signals.

:roll:...by admitting you would rather nef than help a woman "convert her images" I am not surprised....

Shes not so hot...my GF has a better cure for my "floppy disk" 😀

 

Seeing how Windows Vista can read drivers from USB or CDs now, I am removing my floppy drive soon. Maybe replace it with a little memory card slot.

 

[dullard]

I do. Faster and cheaper than burning a CD for a small file. And a whole lot faster than downloading drivers on old computers to use USB keys.

All of the computers I've bought in the last 1.5 years for home or work have been floppyless. But that doesn't mean I don't still use floppys.

 

[40Hands]

Originally posted by: dullard
I do. Faster and cheaper than burning a CD for a small file. And a whole lot faster than downloading drivers on old computers to use USB keys.

I agree that once in a while they are somewhat useful but I use e-mail for small files or a USB thumb drive for larger files. My home computer doesn't even have a FDD anymore.

 

[0roo0roo]

i don't even have a floppy anymore. i have a usb external in a drawer somewhere that came with my z505 sony laptop as a fallback..

 

[Saint Nick]

i'd like to flash her bios!!!!

 

[loic2003]

I have six floppies set up as a RAID array running my OS on my main system. Works a treat, although it's a little slow (50K/s transfer rate, 15s seek time) and perhaps a tad unreliable (18% fail rate).
Worth it, though, I reccomend it highly.


As a side note, this actually has been done in the past!