A Conversation for 3.5 Inch Floppy Disk Maintenance
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finnjim, THE Teacher, messing with peoples minds since 1997 Posted Nov 5, 2002
Don't underestimate the Floppy. It is still the most widely used storage media for small files if for no other reason that it is small, portable can be used in every PC in the world and most importantly files stored on a disk are Read Writeable.
I would be lost without floppies
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NastyKoala - Grand Thingite Master (and Cause) of Chemistry Lab Fiascos Posted Nov 14, 2002
i think CD's ar enow cheaper (albeit wasteful), but hey what to do if you frequently use files far to big for a floppy (even if you compress them!)
I tried a zip drive, but that brings in a whole load of other problems (like people not wanting you to install drivers on their lovely computers)
NK
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finnjim, THE Teacher, messing with peoples minds since 1997 Posted Nov 15, 2002
The problem with CD,s is that it's still a read only technology and if you transferr it to a computer to work on it you need a cd writer to transferr. Really CD writers are a backup option at the moment.
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NastyKoala - Grand Thingite Master (and Cause) of Chemistry Lab Fiascos Posted Nov 15, 2002
what about CD-RW!
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finnjim, THE Teacher, messing with peoples minds since 1997 Posted Nov 15, 2002
No problem if every computer had a CD-RW drive and compatible software. Don't get me wrong I use CD-RWs myself but like looking at the limitations of the floppy drive you also have to look at the limitations of the CD Drive
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AlexAshman Posted Feb 6, 2004
You're forgetting USB sticks and the like. They're much smaller, hold ridiculous amounts of memory, and in a few years everyone will be using them.
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Cefpret Posted Feb 6, 2004
However, then they will have invented hyper-USB that doesn't work with old USB of course, and -- surprise! -- new computers will have hyper-USB only.
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AlexAshman Posted Feb 6, 2004
Well, it's just like when they changed from High Density to Double Density 3.5 floppies... or was it the other way round.
Anyway, the 3.5 floppies from an old Acorn Archimedes (colour screen, graphical user interface, almost like Windows 3.x) will fit into a Windows XP floppy drive, but it can't read them.
The point I'm trying to make is that this happens all the time:
HD floppy to DD floppy
CD to DVD
DVD to Blu-Ray disc (coming to a confused computer centre near you soon)
The whole thing makes me want to 
a mile.
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- 1: cowspeutum (May 28, 2002)
- 2: finnjim, THE Teacher, messing with peoples minds since 1997 (Nov 5, 2002)
- 3: NastyKoala - Grand Thingite Master (and Cause) of Chemistry Lab Fiascos (Nov 14, 2002)
- 4: finnjim, THE Teacher, messing with peoples minds since 1997 (Nov 15, 2002)
- 5: NastyKoala - Grand Thingite Master (and Cause) of Chemistry Lab Fiascos (Nov 15, 2002)
- 6: finnjim, THE Teacher, messing with peoples minds since 1997 (Nov 15, 2002)
- 7: AlexAshman (Feb 6, 2004)
- 8: Cefpret (Feb 6, 2004)
- 9: AlexAshman (Feb 6, 2004)
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