Personal computing discussed
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edh wrote:I still have a 5.25" floppy drive installed in one machine.
I also have an assortment of old Bernoulli drives (+ jaz & zip drives) in various sizes -- just so I can get at whatever some of my computer clients may have orphaned and suddenly found they couldn't live without . . . .
Sargent Duck wrote:My sister didn't care, but my mom was sniffling over the loss (I don't know why, she never used it).
DrDillyBar wrote:I have a USB FDD I got with my Latitude D410. It works quite well actually.
Taddeusz wrote:DrDillyBar wrote:I have a USB FDD I got with my Latitude D410. It works quite well actually.
None of my computers have floppy drives in them any more. I kept one as a backup "just in case" and I have a USB floppy drive that works quite well for those installs of XP that require a driver disk. None of my computers actually need a driver disk for an install though. It mostly just sits and collects dust. And since Vista no longer requires a floppy for drivers it makes a floppy drive even more useless than it ever was.
DrDillyBar wrote:Taddeusz wrote:DrDillyBar wrote:I have a USB FDD I got with my Latitude D410. It works quite well actually.
None of my computers have floppy drives in them any more. I kept one as a backup "just in case" and I have a USB floppy drive that works quite well for those installs of XP that require a driver disk. None of my computers actually need a driver disk for an install though. It mostly just sits and collects dust. And since Vista no longer requires a floppy for drivers it makes a floppy drive even more useless than it ever was.
In the last two years, I've used it to flash my BIOS twice (processor support on my 975 creaps forward), and lent it to my uncle so he could backup a stack of floppies to CD.
NeXus 6 wrote:On my Win98 gaming box for the occasional DOS game that needs a boot disk. Creating those things back in the day was quite the chore if you couldn't get a game to run. Fun times.
Taddeusz wrote:NeXus 6 wrote:On my Win98 gaming box for the occasional DOS game that needs a boot disk. Creating those things back in the day was quite the chore if you couldn't get a game to run. Fun times.
Meh, that's what DOSBox is for.
NeXus 6 wrote:Another question would be if anyone still uses a ZIP drive? I had an external one, but never found much use for it.
Master Kenobi wrote:I don't use a physical floppy anymore, but I do pack Bios FLASH packages into them and program an autoexec function when loaded. These floppys get packed up into nice little IMG files that are then burned off to a CD running isolinux in a custom little boot appy. Looks similar to "Ultimate Boot CD" if you have ever used that.