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Whos using all the floppy disks ???

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    #62
    Irish Halo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    Like most here I haven't used a floppy since first year in uni (99/00), swapped to the 250MB zip disks for a few years then USB sticks appeared. Think I threw all the floppys out when I cleared out my room at home at Xmas.

    Thankfully I never used cassettes but a few here in work used punch cards back in the day.
    m@cc@ wrote: »
    What's even stranger is that the humble floppy disk is still used as a icon for saving files in Windows to this very day.
    Neo Office (and Open Office?) uses a symbol that looks like an external drive but it is disconcerting, I still look for a floppy disk symbol.


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    #63
    limklad
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    To answer OP Question: Many many manufacturing/research companies who have perfectly working old machines still in use to make/design products for customers have machine that instructions and design files can only be transferred by floppy disk and cannot afford new machines due to their high costs. It is basic economics.


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    #64
    opinion guy
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    There's many a time when I needed about 1Mb of disk and could only find a 720K one, that trick only seemed to work on the better quality ones.

    Some of the cheap ones ended up with more bad sectors than "gained" space. :(


    OH yeah now I remember - it only worked on ones that had "HD" or "DD" on them.


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    #65
    pickarooney
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    DD (double density) ones had 1.44Mb by default, did they not?


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    #66
    barryfitz
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    I had to use one to upgrade the RAID controller firmware on a dell server not so long ago ... hehehe snort snort.


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    #67
    Fukuyama
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    Easons still sell these ... I remember seeing them a few months back when I was buying something else. Thought they were done away with years ago.

    Although I guess they might still be handy in some industries ... maybe some techie problem to do with booting, programming which only a floppy can do:confused:


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    #68
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    That's cos it's shíte

    Yup, that's what all the reports are saying.

    No, wait...


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    #69
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    dotsman wrote: »
    You do know that there's probably not a single win98 game that doesn't work on XP?

    P.S. When moving large amounts of data from one computer to another without a network connection, it's usually just easier to just slot the old hard drive into a spare bay on the new machine!

    I wasn't so technologically minded back in the early 2000's. i was only in my teens. :rolleyes: still learning how to tinker with computers. and we did have a wireless network connection set up, but it kept dropping out on us. :mad:
    and i could name a few games that wouldn't work on XP. Dark Reign wouldn't work, we kept getting glitchy screens, even with the latest drivers.


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