The floppy has left the building
...the night the shut the floppy down; all the techs were singing; nahhh nah nah nah nah...
Today Sony the last major manufacturer of floppy disks announced that they were discontinuing production of the 3.5 inch floppy. The device is now part of computer history. Better put a drive aside for when someone desperately needs to recover an archive folks. I wonder if media will rise in price on ebay.
\"Well Bye" -- Curly Bill
Today Sony the last major manufacturer of floppy disks announced that they were discontinuing production of the 3.5 inch floppy. The device is now part of computer history. Better put a drive aside for when someone desperately needs to recover an archive folks. I wonder if media will rise in price on ebay.
\"Well Bye" -- Curly Bill
Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of technology?... The Shadow DO
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Hypntick
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My immediate though to this thread title is......That's what she said.
On a more serious note they do make a fine coaster in a pinch.
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DevilWAH
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i really should copy the last of my floppys over then!! wonder if they still work!!- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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veritas_libertas
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Crazy! I was just thinking about this yesterday. I'm surprised by how long they have been manufactured for. -
lwwarner
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The floppy is dead; long live the floppy!
I think there are still a couple of 8" floppies stashed around here someplace with the PDP-11 version of Zork on them... -
msteinhilber
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And I just found a Wolfenstein 3D floppy in my desk drawer today, time to make an image of that I suppose
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JBrown
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A few days ago I was given a bunch 5.25 floppies and asked if I can get the software off of it.
I was like to myself 1) where do i get the drive for it and 2) WTF do I install it on ? ms-dos 5 ? -
Priston
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I wonder if windows 8 is going to reserve drive A: as the floppy drive still.A.A.S. in Networking Technologies
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demonfurbie
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i have a computer still with an a drive and a b drivewgu undergrad: done ... woot!!
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brianeaglesfan
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I still have an old gateway pc with a working floppy drive. Also have a lot of floppies with joke apps / pr0n / funny pics on them too. Guess I should, as the others are doing, save them elsewhere.... anyways, VIVA LA FLOPPY!Complete: MSMIS, MBA, EPIC certified
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petedude
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I wonder if windows 8 is going to reserve drive A: as the floppy drive still.
Hopefully Linux and Mac OS X will continue support for floppies for a while even if Microsoft doesn't.
I still think floppies are the most ideal format for boot/recovery/install disks, but times have changed. . .Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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tiersten
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It will do for compatibility reasons.I wonder if windows 8 is going to reserve drive A: as the floppy drive still.
You may not have a physical floppy drive but quite a lot of El Torito discs still use floppy emulation instead of the no emulation mode.
