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TheRogue 07-30-2002 04:23 PM

this was just posted on /. (slashdot.org) btw :)

vee_ess 07-30-2002 07:08 PM

The more I think about it, I come to the conclusion that I won't ever need it. I don't have to transfer anything onto any older computers that don't have CD-ROM's, and my motherboard is modern enough that I can use a CD to boot, even to flash my BIOS. The only thing that could make me need it is if I'm flashing my BIOS and my power goes out during the flash, which then erases my BIOS except for a very basic part that allows me to boot off of a floppy to fix the BIOS flashing.

Ryon 07-30-2002 08:13 PM

I just like putting a disk and saving a file large enough to fill up almost the entiere floppy and lisetning to the ehh ehhh ehhh sound of her at work ...... Mabye im sharing too much with you people.

Mac_forever 07-31-2002 01:31 AM

Don't worry about saying too much, Ryon. No one will say anything to you about the floppy thing you do. There might be others that do that too.

I don't have to worry about my computers, too. all of them have a cdrom drive or a CDR/RW drive. Even if I could not back up my files on one computer I would just bring my zip drive and copy the files and burn a cd on my other computer. I used my floppy a long time ago to back up everything on floppys to cds.

compguru 08-01-2002 03:38 PM

its because no one has 100% embraced another standard IE Zip, SuperDisk bla bla; i read somewhere tho that some company in japan found a way to store like 100 mg onto a normal floppy disk

MIK3 08-01-2002 03:45 PM

they actually sold stuff like that. it used a new file system with a whole bunch of things in each peice of info. you had to have the same drive to read it tho


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