Where to buy floppy disks...

Max_Damage

I've been looking around a few computer stores for some 3.5 inch floppy disks, but can't find them on sale anywhere. Now that CD-R has replaced floppy disks, they are now getting harder and harder to find. Does anyone know any stores in the south Dublin reigon that might still sell floppy disks?

KTRIC

There's a bus that leaves regularly from Aran Quay, I think it stops off in 1997 somewhere. Maybe you could get a few floppys there

leeroybrown

Office supplies stores will probably have them.

The other thing that I've noticed is that any floppy's that I've had the misfortune to use in the last few years have been of much lowe quality than when they were in widespread use. Between CDR's, USB Memory Sticks and email very few people acrually need (or want) them any more.

Max_Damage

I find that they are more convinent for saving small files like documents, small images, etc. than CD's. Funny though that they still sell floppy drives in PC World and not the disks!:rolleyes:

netwhizkid

Your local Argos should still have them they are €14.99 and on page 995 of the catalogue and are item number 676/3248 Still despite they being as popular as a fart in a packed taxi I can't figure out why shops won't stock them. They still hold a MB after all "64kb ought to be enough for anyone" -- Bill Gates

Max_Damage

Thanks man, can't believe I missed them in the catalouge, all tucked away down in the right-hand corner of the page......:o

J2DaC

K-TRIC wrote:

There's a bus that leaves regularly from Aran Quay, I think it stops off in 1997 somewhere. Maybe you could get a few floppys there

LOL!

I never liked floppys at all, even when they were cool! (who sed that) I use the storage for floppy on my pc as a 200gb HDD. Which is better? lol

Yeah argos have em' in there catalog.

raheny red

Where to buy floppy disks...

A museum...

RobertFoster

I got 40 free with a PC I got in 2001. Still have about 20...somewhere...

The shop in college charge a staggering €1.35 for one disk and label! :eek:

aidan_dunne

[old man voice] Ah, young'uns these days don't know how lucky they have it with their cheap blank CD's and DVD's and USB thing-um-e-bobs offering gigs upon gigs of storage space. I remember back in the days when floppy disks actually were floppy and you could bend them. Great big old 8" and 5 1/4" things they were. Then along came these teeny, tiny little 3 1/2" discs that were in a hard plastic case. And oh how we marveled at the massive 1.44MB storage capacity they offered us. Sure never mind discs, even, I remember sitting for half an hour, maybe, waiting for a single level of a game to load off a cassette. And you'd be sitting there with everything crossed, rosary beads out praying to God that it would load and not crash at the last second.

Damn kids these days, probably are reading this and don't even know what a cassette tape is! [/old man voice]

Seriously, though, I still use floppies to this day. Very handy for storing small files and little text documents and stuff. Have loads of old programs and utilities and things that I still use today on floppies. So you can all laugh and joke but there's still plenty of us out there who still get a lot of use from floppy discs on an everyday basis. Don't go dismissing that little square bit of plastic yet, I say!

RobertFoster

Why don't you put all the utilities and things onto one CD aidan?

I agree though, floppies are useful

tba

RobertFoster wrote:

Why don't you put all the utilities and things onto one CD aidan?

I agree though, floppies are useful

class

I made the move away from 3.5" recently.

! burnt about 300 floppys along with a drive, the freedom was great

K.O.Kiki

Floppies and Zip-disks are being literally eaten by our college's ageing machines. True story.