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I know. It's just I remember the outcry when the fruit-flavoured iMacs were launched.
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8643844.stm See, Jobs? This is what happens when you introduce PCs that don't have floppy drives in them. Mad impetuous fool! |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
It's got nothing to do with Macs not using them and more to do with their pathetic capacity, slow speed and terrible terrible reliability. |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:11 pm ] | |||||||||
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I know. It's just I remember the outcry when the fruit-flavoured iMacs were launched. |
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| Author: | Nick [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
I will always miss the floppy disk. It was always a golden excuse for missing homework. "Sorry miss, I had my homework in the same pocket as my phone and it wiped it" |
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| Author: | adidan [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
Hey, hey, hey!!!! I still use a floppy disk for BIOS or vBIOS updates. It's still the most reliable, I've had trouble using USBs for the same job. Admittedly the drive lives in a drawer and only comes out as and when, but still. LEAVE IT ALONE, IT WORKS!!!! |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
I still have something like 200-300 floppy disks. Not quite sure how to dispose of them. Even on my first Windows-based computer, I disabled the floppy disk drive by around '97-98. Everything was on CD by that point and I no longer had the need for it. |
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| Author: | EddArmitage [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
Bah! They're not real floppy disks, anyhoo! |
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| Author: | adidan [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:46 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! | |||||||||
Lol, aye. Now if you want old skool let's talk about TDK cassettes! Screech, whine, screech FTW! |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
What am I going to use on my Electron +3 now? |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
There was a time when I took crap Atari ST games, wiped em, and sold the blank disks to people who didn't know any better  I've never understood needing a floppy disk for BIOS updates in this day and age - it seems like something that should have been sorted long ago 
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:18 am ] | |||||||||
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Back in Sun it was possible on some servers to boot from an FTP server and install BIOS updates...Surely if this is possibly using modern PCs, ASUS/etc. could create a large FTP server for updates? If a user wanted to set up their own they should be able to do that also... |
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| Author: | adidan [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:14 am ] | |||||||||
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I know what you mean. All of the software based updates seem to be ridiculed for bricking motherboards. I recently had to do it and ended up back with a floppy disk. I tried CD/DVD and USB on my mobo and it wasn't having any of it. Actually, Windows 7 was then being a pain and not even completing a floppy properly. Formatted on the Vista rig fine, hooked it up and it worked perfectly. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
A friend of mine still has a bunch of 8" floppies for sale in his shop!
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:33 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! | |||||||||
(and before you say it, no I wasn't allowed to put my HDD inside a uni computer). |
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| Author: | james016 [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The end of the horse-drawn floppy disk! |
We still need them at work for making server ASR images. |
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