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3.5 Inch Floppy

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No . . . not that ;). Does anyone use these *points to the object below* anymore? Have they become obsolete?

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I still find them quite useful. Just today I copied some files at work to a diskette to bring home as a matter of fact. The diskette fits in my shirt pocket and is great for small word documents or source code files. I don't think they're obsolete at all.
 
I haven't used one in years. As a matter of fact, when I bought my latest computer (Gateway), it did not even come with a floppy drive. With the speed of broadband and CD/DVD burners as well as other recordable media such as zip and jaz drives, I think the old foppy is quickly going the same route as music on cassette.
 
Um, they were obsolete 5 years ago.

I don't suppose you still have a Zip drive? I have lots of disks (floppy & zip) if you need them. ;)
 
When I got my computer, I got a zip instead of the floppy. Now I can hardly find the zip disks anymore!
 
I have a sony camera that uses them so i bought and external drive for them since my new computer doesn't have a 3.5 drive. i still see them and the zip disks
at office supply stores.
 
I bought my computer in Jan. 2004, it still has the floppy drive. I've never used it, haven't used one at all in several years.



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If you want to do bios updates, most machines still require you to do it with a floppy. I am a systems administrator and find I need to use them on ocasion for bios updates, espeically when doing updates to components such as raid controllers or HBA's.

Its harder to get servers with them, but I won't buy one without one if I can help it. If I have to I will then use a USB floppy.
 
I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive in the closet. Now that is obsolete. In fact I remember 8 inch floppy disks from some business systems in about 1978 that recorded data downloaded via a 150 baud modem. We thought it was cool back then.
 
I've got a Mac, which don't accept these, I only got the computer in 2004 but I still haven't used floppy disks since about 2002.
 
I have a 3.5 drive on my 2005 Dell. And I do use it for storing documents for school. I have some things, like awards, worksheets, etc... which I store on floppy. That leaves more room on my hard drive for images!!!!!
 
A USB Flash drive or "thumb" drive has essentially replaced the floppy. My computer doesn't even have a floppy drive. It didn't come with one. The "thumb" drive is great. You can purchase them (relatively inexpensively) at any computer store and they come in storage limits than range from 8 megs up to 64 gigs. Just plug it into any USB port and you have an instant new drive. They are about the size of your thumb.

 
haven't used a floppy in probably six or seven years.

i used to have 3 flash drives and used them too, but really haven't used them much in almost 2 years.

now i just email everything or upload to a server somewhere. i still keep my 256 stick with me just in case i can't access the internet somewhere but now usually just connect my cell phone to my laptop if there isn't service available at all. i just haven't gotten around to getting a cellular broadband nic or laptop with one built into it yet.
 
Yah I just used one today to format my new hard drive and reinstall Windows. I only use them as boot disks in time of hardware failures or new installations. Other than that there's really not a need for such a small amount of storage space.
 
One of our computers still has a floppy drive. But nobody uses it (the floppy drive). It's all about flash drives and CD-Rs. CD-Rs are getting pretty obsolete, aren't they? Hmmm...
 
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