19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
12:49 p.m.
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at
sydex.com>
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Maybe it's time for a new census, although I wonder--many systems
made since about 1995 won't support more than a single floppy anyway--
and I suspect that floppyless desktop PCs aren't that far off from
becoming the rule (many are still shipped with a 34-pin header on the
mobo just in case, but that won't stay around, I suspect).
Cheers,
Chuck
Hi Chuck
Your correct, floppies are on the way out. Media conversion will become
more of an issue in the next 10 to 15 years. Right now, I have a machine
that is one of the last laptops to have both CDROM and floppy that I use
for reading email and downloads.
None of the new ones have floppies.
I take my 3.5 floppy to a machine that can handle 5.25 and FM.
I still find it easier to do serial transfers to get to 8 inch disk but
serial
ports are on their way out as well.
Windows has just lanched Vista. How much support for drivers will there
be for this OS, if past history is any indication. I get the feeling that at
some
point, the only interface left that seems to be common is paper and
keyboard.
Just not sure what to do in the future.
Dwight
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