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Anywhere around DCU I could get a floppy disk?

  • 16-12-2008 04:20PM
    #1
    carlowboy
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    I know they're old etc but I need one for tomorrow. Any ideas?


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  • #2
    Smellyirishman
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    Spar on campus? They do CDs anyway and I'm pretty sure that they used to do floppies.


  • #3
    carlowboy
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    Smellyirishman wrote: »
    Spar on campus? They do CDs anyway and I'm pretty sure that they used to do floppies.

    Nope they don't now anyway. The guy working there looked at me as if I had six heads.


  • #4
    trellheim
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    put the head into the Uni IT support gang ask nicely you never know.


  • #5
    carlowboy
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    trellheim wrote: »
    put the head into the Uni IT support gang ask nicely you never know.

    CSD right?


  • #6
    regob
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    your students union shop should have them


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  • #7
    Cy_Revenant
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    I'd be surprised if you could find them. Floppy discs are archaic, and last I checked were barely supported by CSD.

    Most new computers don't have floppy drives, and a lot of the labs around DCU don't accept them either.

    I've heard that coem lecturers still demand submissions on them but its a little unreasonable in this day and age.


  • #8
    steo87
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    Yeah, you might find one.....back in the 90s


  • #9
    An Citeog
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    Try the library aswell, either the issues desk or the CSD helpdesk.
    Cy_Revenant wrote: »
    I'd be surprised if you could find them. Floppy discs are archaic, and last I checked were barely supported by CSD.

    Most new computers don't have floppy drives, and a lot of the labs around DCU don't accept them either.

    I've heard that coem lecturers still demand submissions on them but its a little unreasonable in this day and age.

    Afaik, the only computers in DCU that have floppy drives are in the library. We had to use them to input decisions, using some ancient software, for one module. Pain in the hole tbh!


  • #10
    Grudaire
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    carlowboy wrote: »
    I know they're old etc but I need one for tomorrow. Any ideas?

    Trust my bogger friend - trust. All is taken care of


  • #11
    starn
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    Last place I saw a floppy on sale. Was in a crazy shop on the mainstreet of Castleblaney.

    Its kinda of neat DCU


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  • #12
    Ace2007
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    why do you need a floppy disc anyway?


  • #13
    Anon69
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    Ace2007 wrote: »
    why do you need a floppy disc anyway?
    Some pointless assignment no doubt.

    Probably too late now but I think Eason (O'Connell Street) might still do them. If not you could try Peats up the road on Parnell Street.


  • #14
    carlowboy
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    Ace2007 wrote: »
    why do you need a floppy disc anyway?

    Computational Mathematics 1. Got it off Cliste in the end.


  • #15
    Daysha
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    Saw someone in Spar today as for one too, yer man behind the counter just gave him a CD without even asking if it was alright :rolleyes:


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