| Author |
Message |
|
HeatherKay
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm
Posts: 7262
Location: Here, but not all there.
|
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8643844.stmSee, Jobs? This is what happens when you introduce PCs that don't have floppy drives in them. Mad impetuous fool!
_________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:57 pm |
|
|
|
l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
Posts: 12700
Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
|
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.
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:09 pm |
|
|
|
HeatherKay
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm
Posts: 7262
Location: Here, but not all there.
|
I know. It's just I remember the outcry when the fruit-flavoured iMacs were launched. _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:11 pm |
|
|
|
Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
Posts: 3527
Location: Portsmouth
|
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"
_________________
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:34 pm |
|
|
|
adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm
Posts: 5048
|
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!!!!
_________________
Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much.
jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:36 pm |
|
|
|
cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
Posts: 10022
|
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.
_________________ He fights for the users.
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:40 pm |
|
|
|
EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
Posts: 5288
Location: ln -s /London ~
|
Bah! They're not real floppy disks, anyhoo!
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:44 pm |
|
|
|
adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm
Posts: 5048
|
Lol, aye. Now if you want old skool let's talk about TDK cassettes! Screech, whine, screech FTW!
_________________
Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much.
jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:46 pm |
|
|
|
paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
Posts: 12251
|
What am I going to use on my Electron +3 now?
|
| Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:49 pm |
|
|
|
pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
Posts: 45931
Location: Belfast
|
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  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
|
| Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:02 am |
|
|
|
forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
Posts: 5159
Location: /dev/tty0
|
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...
|
| Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:18 am |
|
|
|
adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm
Posts: 5048
|
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.
_________________
Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much.
jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
|
| Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:14 am |
|
|
|
big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
Posts: 10691
Location: Bramsche
|
A friend of mine still has a bunch of 8" floppies for sale in his shop!
_________________
"Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
Executive Producer No Agenda Show 246
|
| Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:18 am |
|
|
|
l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
Posts: 12700
Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
|
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).
|
| Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:33 am |
|
|
|
james016
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 5:52 pm
Posts: 1899
|
We still need them at work for making server ASR images.
_________________ My Flickr PageNow with added ball and chain.
|
| Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:47 am |
|
|
