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The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! 
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EddArmitage
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l3v1ck wrote:
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I will always miss the floppy disk.
Miss it my arse! Thanks to the size limit on a floppy I had to carry my full tower PC into uni to do a power point presentation. USB didn't exist at that point.
(and before you say it, no I wasn't allowed to put my HDD inside a uni computer).

Didn't you used to be able to pack powerpoints over multiple floppies?

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l3v1ck wrote:
Nick wrote:
I will always miss the floppy disk.
Miss it my arse! Thanks to the size limit on a floppy I had to carry my full tower PC into uni to do a power point presentation. USB didn't exist at that point.
(and before you say it, no I wasn't allowed to put my HDD inside a uni computer).


We used to use zip & jaz drives for our stuff at uni

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Miss it my arse! Thanks to the size limit on a floppy I had to carry my full tower PC into uni to do a power point presentation.


Couldn't you use a compression tool such as winzip and span the file across several discs. If you used the self-extractor-program, the end computer didn't even need to have a compression/decompression tool on it.

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l3v1ck wrote:
Miss it my arse! Thanks to the size limit on a floppy I had to carry my full tower PC into uni to do a power point presentation.


Couldn't you use a compression tool such as winzip and span the file across several discs. If you used the self-extractor-program, the end computer didn't even need to have a compression/decompression tool on it.

I thought Powerpoint could span multiple disks out of the box.

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Why didn't you tell me that twelve years ago? :lol:

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Why didn't you tell me that twelve years ago? :lol:

http://www.actden.com/pp/unit8/8_1.htm (8-p)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8651750.stm
A fun read and relevant :D

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