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When is the last time you used your floppy?
Why are these things still on computers? worthless waste of space.
It's been at least 3 years since I have used one.
It's been at least 3 years since I have used one.
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Sometimes when I am first starting up a computer (or installing the OS after a format) it is the easiest way to install some drivers.
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I transfer files from home to work via floppy."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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how much memory do those things have anyways? Isn't it only like 1 MB?Comment
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it's only good for various sorts of start up disks and bios flashing but those two uses can be important.Comment
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It is small (1.4 MB IIRC) but I deal with text files for the most part."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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I use a thumbdrive.
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I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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A few years ago. We had to submit some programming project by floppy.
For all other purposes it's email or a disk-on-key."Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.Comment
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Moi aussi.Originally posted by Wezil
I transfer files from home to work via floppy.
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Bloody Windows-install cd didn't have SATA-drivers... And I don't have a floppy-drive. One would think they'd understand thumb-drives, but no... Had to make a new installation cd, with drivers...I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"Comment
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Do any motherboards allow for flash upgrades and boot ups from a usb flash drive?Comment
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I installed Gentoo on my home computer by booting it up with a grub netboot floppy and pulling in a kernel and, IIRC, a largish initrd (enough to start a shell in order to create filesystems and copy in more stuff, at least) over tftp. Saved a CD and learned a bunch of things doing that
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This was several years ago, though... I've removed the floppy drive since, because I never figured out any other use for it.This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHandComment
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I haven't had a floppy drive in my computer for 3-4 years, which means I probably haven't used floppies for like 4-5 yearsThis space is empty... or is it?Comment
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Bought a new computer in early december. This is my first PC without a floppy drive. I last used a floppy drive in june, when I had to reboot from a floppy in order to do some stuff with partition magic.
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last time was two years ago, used a linux boot disk to reset a windoze password. last legit use, can't remember.Visit First Cultural Industries
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