4 May
2005
4 May
'05
11:45 a.m.
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Eric Smith wrote:
If all they had to
do was pick them up off the ground (like a rock), put it in a box, ship
it across the ocean, to the distributor, to the dealer, and finally to
me, I'd have expected to have to pay more than $10 for it.
ROFL! No shit -- for $12 I bought a replacement 3.5" floppy. All
in all, it's pretty spectacular; this incredibly precise (though
not precise enough :-) metal plastic and silicon thing.
That's corporate culture for you. 99.9% of the western monied
world rarely uses floppies at all, and even then only occasionally
for the odd legacy floppy. Basically no one gives a shit anymore
about floppies.
There used to be entire magazine articles devoted to them. Today,
many computer owners don't even know what one is.
Floppies suck (as much as I like my 8" Shugart), good riddance.
Let's bring back 1/2" magtape instead! Much cooler! Compare old
sci fi movies; how many use burping floppy drives to impress?
Zilch -- boring! A room full of floor-standing vacuum column tape
drives! Tres f*cking cool!