29 Apr
2010
29 Apr
'10
2:23 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: the beginning of the end for floppies
The "beginning of the end" for
floppies happened a long time ago.
Like when Apple stopped including a floppy drive in iMacs (remember
all the screaming in PC quarters about how they were still important?)
Personally, in the past 8 years, I've only used floppies at work for
BIOS upgrades. Prior to that, it was for Linux and Win98 installs
where I couldn't boot a CD-ROM directly.
Well, we use floppy disks all the time at work to transfer data (10KB's
maximum) from an instrument computer to the another one hooked up to our
internal network. We do have USB sticks (aka thumb drives), but not many
people are comfortable using them and our version of windows (XP) has the
"first time refusal" glitch too.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
2010/4/28 Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net>:
>
>> Well, as of yesterday, Sony is planning to stop production of floppy
>> disks. Apparently, other companies will still make them, but I'm sure
its
>> only a matter of time....
>>
>>
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