Casheti
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I can't do that because these aren't like Tower PC's. They lay flat :-\
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Save The Floppy Drive Clubhouse
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Fusion
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i have 2 3 1/4 drives and a 5 1/2 drive in my firewall server at home, which I sometime play lemmings on!
I also payed £55 once for 50 floppy drives off ebay, all of which are now sold
I also payed £55 once for 50 floppy drives off ebay, all of which are now sold
Carcenomy
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Two 3.5" drives on the A1200, 5.25" drive on my Apple IIgs.
The trouble is my huge collection of old floppies is mostly trash now. Three genuine copies of MSDOS 6.22, dead. A complete floppy set of Windows 95, dead. Only a few boot disks and a couple of driver disks still work.
Funnily enough, loads of my old gear is getting that way. I have three old XTs sitting in my shed, none of them can boot any longer - my MSDOS 5.25" disks are all toasted, and the old MFM hard drives have 'forgotten' everything... one even had a nice MSDOS 3.30 and Windows 1.07 setup on it, but it seems the hard disks have simply stopped holding the data.
That said, floppies that DO still work are all my old Amiga games. My original Workbench 3.1 floppies all still work, checked them out just the other day. Bubble Bobble works too
There's still need for floppies, and until Vista becomes the mainstream operating system, there will continue to be.
The trouble is my huge collection of old floppies is mostly trash now. Three genuine copies of MSDOS 6.22, dead. A complete floppy set of Windows 95, dead. Only a few boot disks and a couple of driver disks still work.
Funnily enough, loads of my old gear is getting that way. I have three old XTs sitting in my shed, none of them can boot any longer - my MSDOS 5.25" disks are all toasted, and the old MFM hard drives have 'forgotten' everything... one even had a nice MSDOS 3.30 and Windows 1.07 setup on it, but it seems the hard disks have simply stopped holding the data.
That said, floppies that DO still work are all my old Amiga games. My original Workbench 3.1 floppies all still work, checked them out just the other day. Bubble Bobble works too
There's still need for floppies, and until Vista becomes the mainstream operating system, there will continue to be.
Casheti
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Even after Vista is mainstream, I'll still use floppies.
I'm scared of floppys... its a childish thing, i popped a floppy in when i was 7 and bloop, BSoD
Casheti
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How can a BSOD scare you? I find them funny 
How can a BSOD scare you? I find them funny
... I run out of my room every time there is a BSoD
Ketxxx
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Floppy drives are invaluable when performing some tasks, such as DOS based flash procedures. and I still have 2 floppy drives and about 20 disks
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No more floppy drive. It's an obsolete tech. I work at a college and people still use this POS to save their documents and files on it. Needless to say, it's very unreliable so people constantly lose their stuffs. So what do the do? Instead of realizing that it's the floppy's fault, they come and bitch at your beloved tech (me). Half of the time, I just want to slap them for being ignorant... Sorry if I sound hostile but it's just plain annoying...venting. I don't see why mobo makers still use it to flash bios. Hell why not enable USB or CD flash option. Granted making bootable USB is not as easy but bootable CD was very easy. I have done it on my previous Asus A8N32.
Ketxxx
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| Cooling | Modded 240mm Coolermaster Liquidmaster |
| Memory | 2x16GB Klevv BoltX 3600MHz & custom timings |
| Video Card(s) | Powercolor 6800XT Red Devil |
| Storage | 250GB Asgard SSD, 1TB Integral SSD, 2TB Seagate Barracuda |
| Display(s) | 27" BenQ Mobiuz |
| Case | NZXT Phantom 530 |
| Audio Device(s) | Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-E |
| Power Supply | 1000w Supernova |
| Software | Windows 10 x64 |
| Benchmark Scores | Fast. I don't need epeen. |
Bootable USB is much more desireable than a bootable CD as data can be deleted and copied much easier to USB sticks. If that become the norm then I wouldnt have the need for my floppy drive anymore either.
3991vhtes
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| Motherboard | ASUS A8V-VM SE |
| Cooling | Stock |
| Memory | 1GB DDR400 |
| Video Card(s) | DiamondViper Radeon X1650PRO 512MB PCI-e |
| Storage | Seagate 250GB SATA |
| Display(s) | Acer AL2002W 20" LCD Widescreen |
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I don't use any floppy, I like using the ZIP drive. so this means i cannot join? lol
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| Memory | 2x1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 CAS4 DHX |
| Video Card(s) | PALiT 9800GTX 512MB PCI-E |
| Storage | WD2500AAKS, WD1600YS, WD1200JD, WD400EB |
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I have two floppy drives, neither of which are installed. One's mounted inside my old computer that my parents are using temporarily, but it's not connected.
The other is a black one I bought for my current build. It's in a box with some spare optical drives.
I hope motherboards start losing FDD ports.
The other is a black one I bought for my current build. It's in a box with some spare optical drives.
I hope motherboards start losing FDD ports.