Ex-floppy

[granny]

Seems that the humble floppy drive is on it's way out. Only reason I can see for having them now is as a very useful emergency boot device when everything else goes tits up....

Don't know why I posted this, I'm just bored really. Feel free to immeadiately take this off-topic.

 

[Gef]

You dont even need it for emergency boot device nowadays, most mobo's can boot directly from CD anyway.

 

[nath]

DVDs have even beefier data storage abilities, with a one-sided, single-layer disc able to hold about 4.4GB, and a double-sided, double-layer DVD offering almost 16GB of capacity.

Shame that there are no burnable dual layer dvds, and there probably won't be for some time because obviously people will rent/copy dvds till the cows come home. Which they won't :/

 

[Munkey-]

aye. I get seriously rankled whilst using floppys. The bloody write protection thing is open......the files are corrupted......your file is too large by 1kb......takes fucking forever to copy/write too.

Getting a thumb drive soon anyway (128mb) which will make transferring coursework (which has files over 2 mb) a helleva lot more easier.

 

[Lester]

You mean they don't already?


And I love my floppy I still love DOS tbh .

 

[mank!]

I broke my FDD when building my new PC back in August last year, didn't bother getting a new one and haven't even needed to use it yet.

 

[Will]

Without a floppy, flashing my BIOS this morning would have been really tricky.

 

[xane]

Originally posted by Will.
Without a floppy, flashing my BIOS this morning would have been really tricky.

My FreeBSD machine was built sans FDD, and when I attepted to upgrade the HDD the BIOS would allow more than 32Gb, had to quickly install a FDD to get the BIOS flashed, I was surprized I managed to get a new BIOS as the mobo is quite old, a Slot One 440BX no less (Abit BX6v2).

Originally posted by Gef
You dont even need it for emergency boot device nowadays, most mobo's can boot directly from CD anyway.

Problem is not booting from CD, it is making a bootable CD in the first place, for that you need a CD-RW and under Windows it can sometimes be tricky getting it to work (check this out).

 

[Wij]

floppy

*titter*

 

[S-Gray]

Yeah i wonder who did come up with them names... wasnt you was it Wij?

"Going to insert my floppy drive into your box now Madam"

"Hard Drives are bigger and better, and go a lot faster"

 

[xane]

Actually, the 3.5" disks should be called "stiffies".

Only the 5.25" disks were actually "floppy", I still have 250 of these bastards from years back.

 

[xane]

Originally posted by Will.
Without a floppy dick, flashing my BALLS this morning would have been really tricky.

To continue to old BW tradition of misquoting

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by xane


To continue to old BW tradition of misquoting

Aren't you old enough to grow out of that sort of humour?

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by mank!


Aren't you old enough to fiddle with my penis ?

*titter*

 

[Will]

Originally posted by xane


My FreeBSD machine was built sans FDD...

So was mine, however, my Windows CD refuses to boot (don't ask too closely, but it is legal, honest) and I need to use floppies to kick-start the install.

 

[.cage]

 

[Will]

That was...I can't believe it...on topic.

The only annoying thing was the size.

 

[Testin da Cable]

teh brill!

 

[PR.]

Yes, I think the removal of my Floppy Disk drive will be my next alteration to my PC, it will remove another cable from the spaghetti junction that is my PC case

 

[doh_boy]

A friend of mine got a new pc last month and decided to go for a usb floppy drive. :/

Seemed like a good idea to me.

 

[Jiggs]

sweet pic

 

[.cage]

only use of them i can think of is boot discs. But every modern OS cd is bootable these days, so they're pretty redundant even for that.

 

[FatBusinessman]

Originally posted by Will.
The only annoying thing was the size.

[wij]

*titter*

[/wij]