the beginning of the end for floppies

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:49:38 -0600 "Jim MacKenzie" <jim at photojim.ca> wrote: I don't. And I am glad that floppies are gone. 3.5" flppies: I stoped using floppies about 10 years ago. I was tired of copying the same data to at least three floppies in the hope that at least one of the floppies would be readable. At that time it was just impossible to get reliable media and drives. Floppies where cheap and unreliable PeeCee junk. It was a bit better in the early 90'is. (When a simple floppy drive cost two or three times as much as a DVD drive today.) I remember when I had to flash the firmware of an AlphaServer 1000 (?) due to an EV4 to EV5 CPU upgrade. The only way to do it was floppy. It was a nightmare. I had to try several floppies and drives, write errors, read errors, ... ARGL! 5.25" flppies: Used them in the C64 / C128D era and early PeeCee days. Mostly worked. But at that time (1990) 3.5" floppies where halfway usable too. 8" flppies where already gone and replaced by 5.25", when I got my fingers on a computer for the first time. -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/