The End of a Floppy Era

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This article is an editorial on the end of the floppy and the rise of more portable, more efficient data storage." Floppy nothing. In my day we etched our data into pottery. Talk about your long term enterprise data storage. Some of those buggers made it thousands of years!

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MicrotechXP

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Yay floppys did not do anything anyway they where to small in space...But still goodbye!
 

Tyler

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Man looks like x10 is turning into the next slashdot/digg :blink:
 

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I hope to God that floppies will never go away. It'll just make having to boot into dos a real big pain.

In my sister's laptop, there is no floppy drive, so when her computer crashed, there was no way to do anything other than trying to make my USB flashdrive bootable.

It's a lot easier with floppies.
 

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Tyler said:
Man looks like x10 is turning into the next slashdot/digg :blink:

why do you say so Tyler?

My dad's laptop does not even have a floppy but it can DVD/CD writer.. So i believe floppies have no future unless otherwise..
 
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Floppies, while still having very few uses, have been replaced by CD's and memory sticks, and have been so for years, in my opinion.
 

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Iceman said:
Floppies, while still having very few uses, have been replaced by CD's and memory sticks, and have been so for years, in my opinion.

Certainly memory disks and CD's no common for some years.. I like memory disk some how better than CD's..
 

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floppies are a last resort for me.. im still in grade school and we still use em... heh .. i can't bring around usb pen drives cuz one, i don't own one, two, it will get jacked within the first week... and 3, well... why need that much space for some small project?? floppies are best for me for school now.. DVDs is now becoming standard and we're going to UMD and Bluray and HD-DVD... what next? a 1TB disc? hell we're going too fast with technology... next thing you know.. we're in computers o_O.. i better die quickly >.<
 

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nforchange said:
Tyler said:
Man looks like x10 is turning into the next slashdot/digg :blink:

why do you say so Tyler?

My dad's laptop does not even have a floppy but it can DVD/CD writer.. So i believe floppies have no future unless otherwise..

He probably means that x10 offers allot of news. Like you only do bulletin software updates. And some other people to the new "stuff".
 

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to be honest i dont have any floppies at all anymore, replaced them with usb pen, stores way more in a compact space, what could you fit on a floppy? few word docs, few low res pics, if you was to make a backup nowadays wed need thousands of floppies
 

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Floppies were good when people used to think of 1000 KB as 80 GB. Floppies used to be like DVDs in like 1993. DVD's hold alot and back then 1.5 MB was alot. And they are such a pain beacause of the metal thing. If it touches ANYTHING the disk is ruined. Thats why I like my flash drive, beacause it holds alot and it is dependable. It cant get scratched (like a CD can) and there is no metal thing that is really sensitive (like a floppy). Flash drives are the way of the future. The only place I ever see floppys is School for student storage but with network hardrives even at school they are starting to fade away...
 

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i liek floppies, good for school and cost less than gettign a cd.but cds are good, especiall RW's
but i like floppies!
 

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neither my laptop or the home computer still has floppies. and windows xp makes it alot easier to make flashdrives bootable
 

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Also save your old computer with a floppy drive and network it with your other computers. Make the floppy drive shared over the network. Now you can put a floppy in your old computer and open it through my network places on your new computers.
 

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Ive got to say yay for the end of Floppies.I only used a floppy and its very useless.CD is kinf of useless too other than for backups and media.Thats why i own a Jump Drive.
 

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i went to work experience in it, for a 'edIT 'Centre' where they mend, fix ect educational computers, networks, ect' and we were installing a new server network cc3 to a schools network and we used loads of floppies as build disks, so we all say then end of a era but they are still important, in it
 

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cricket said:
I hope to God that floppies will never go away. It'll just make having to boot into dos a real big pain.

In my sister's laptop, there is no floppy drive, so when her computer crashed, there was no way to do anything other than trying to make my USB flashdrive bootable.

It's a lot easier with floppies.
Me too, floppies are lack of space, but they can save our lives in crashes
 
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