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Posted 02 September 2012 - 12:35 AM
I still use floppy disks, I have
ShadOS Standalone on my best floppy, but that's all I use it for, a cool place to store stuff (even if it only holds 1mb). I use a USB floppy disk and had to edit base ubuntu files to get it to load. What do you guys use them for?
EDIT: Quick hint if you are interested, SSA 0.4A will have a zip file tool.
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Posted 02 September 2012 - 01:56 AM
You might see it still used in a business environment where they still have some legacy ahrdware or software, but other than that, probably not. Don't evne know the last time I saw a computer with a floppy drive in it.
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Posted 02 September 2012 - 06:14 AM
If you haven't seen a PC with a floppy drive, I take it you don't got to school… Most schools still have old PCs…
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Posted 02 September 2012 - 06:19 AM
If you haven't seen a PC with a floppy drive, I take it you don't got to school… Most schools still have old PCs…
You sure?
Even crappy schools at my old hometown were good enough to know that floppies are hilariously outdated, haha.
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Posted 02 September 2012 - 07:34 AM
Floppies have become obsolete.. In all honesty I don't see why anyone would use one if they could just burn a disk or use a flash drive.
Got my Windows 95 Floppy.
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Posted 02 September 2012 - 09:39 AM
Lol, I use floppys for plain text really. Like CC disks. Heck, I even put a 1.5mb limit on my CC ones…
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Posted 02 September 2012 - 03:14 PM
If you haven't seen a PC with a floppy drive, I take it you don't got to school… Most schools still have old PCs…
I haven't seen a *reasonably new* PC with a floppy drive. I have 4 old clunkers in my room with floppy drives right now.
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 12:27 AM
i have a trs 80 color computer with about 40 floppys (my uncle was cleaning out his garage and gave me his tandy and BASIC programing books)
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 03:50 AM
My parents still have their stupidly outdated Windows 95 machine. They still use it only for word processing, like for letters, but it takes about half an hour to boot up. My dad does use MS-DOS to start his flight simulator. Flight Sim 95! They have STACKS of floppies in their drawers.
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 04:24 AM
I have a set of boot floppys, and a floppy drive I dont use….
And my school atually has DISK drives!!!! (Amazing, although they dont work, since they are all disabled. dumb teacher people…….)
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 06:18 AM
I have a set of boot floppys, and a floppy drive I dont use….
And my school atually has DISK drives!!!! (Amazing, although they dont work, since they are all disabled. dumb teacher people…….)
Hah. Most of the disk drives at my school were disabled… Physically… By students…
My parents still have their stupidly outdated Windows 95 machine. They still use it only for word processing, like for letters, but it takes about half an hour to boot up. My dad does use MS-DOS to start his flight simulator. Flight Sim 95! They have STACKS of floppies in their drawers.
I have some Pentium 4s I've been looking to get rid of… :D/>/>
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 12:11 PM
If she doesn't know what a floppy is, she's too young for you!
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Posted 08 September 2012 - 06:00 AM
I still use IBM machines in my basements. That's old 0.0
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Posted 08 September 2012 - 08:12 AM
I was using floppies as late as high school, 2006- that was with a Macintosh LC (Low-cost Colour), very old thing but quite good to use. Floppy drives were on school computers as legacy support, but we were moving towards flash memory by then. Quite a few homeworks I got out of by saying my floppy was corrupted (which it often was) but my new laptop put a stop to that.
I don't think anyone sensible still uses them. They're too volatile- flash memory is the name of the game now.
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Posted 09 September 2012 - 11:15 PM
Yeah, legacy (and nostalgia :')) are the only reason I use floppys. I'm hoping to get a C64 soon and that will be the only way I can communicate with it though. C64s are cool (Anyone got a BASH/Lua emulator for C64?)!
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Posted 09 September 2012 - 11:50 PM
i decided to add a floppy drive to my computer, it didnt have the right connectors so instead i use it as a secret cd storage, i made the eject button only work when you set a secret io port
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Posted 10 September 2012 - 11:23 PM
This reminds me, The other day I got two old IBM PCs from about 1996 FO FREEEEEEE :^)
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 03:41 AM
Man, I'm jealous of you guys and your old comptuers. My old 286 and 486 are long dead :D/>/> All I have left is a Macintosh LC30 in my closet.
With that said, while my computer lacks a floppy drive, I still have a box of floppy disks on my desk. Not just the 3.5" variety, but the 5.25" ones as well!
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Posted 25 November 2013 - 06:39 PM
I have an NEC Multispeed from around the early to mid 90's I think. It runs MS-DOS 3.11. I also have an Osborne 1 Computer that was known to be one of the first portable computers. It's from 1983 from what it tells me with the copyright on the ROM when it startsup. I have all of the programs disks that come with it plus more blank 5.25" Around 50 or so blanks disks, (Like I would ever use all 50 of them!) But I just use like 5 of those blanks for backups. Both very nice machines considering how old they are, I'm 15 but I still like to look back on how we got from point "A" to point "B" in the evolution of computers.
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Posted 25 November 2013 - 08:40 PM
I have a rare Apple II GS in the barn. Has both 3 and 5 inch floppy drives! Worth lots of money!
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Posted 26 November 2013 - 01:50 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx_vWkv50ukThis gut repurpused his floppy disk drives.
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Posted 26 November 2013 - 04:18 PM
I got an old computer today. It runs with win 95 but I also have MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 on floppys.the best thing about it is thst it has CD and floppy :D/> But 400 MB HDD aren't very much xD
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Posted 28 November 2013 - 12:44 AM
[media]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx_vWkv50uk[/media]
This gut repurpused his floppy disk drives.
Sooo cool!
Reminds me of this video I watched some time ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68qZ8JvBds
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Posted 28 November 2013 - 01:22 AM
I still have windows 3.1 on 8 disks!
My mum has an old windows 98 pc that uses a floppy boot disk when she kills it lol
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Posted 28 November 2013 - 01:36 AM
I still have windows 3.1 on 8 disks!
Don't lie, they're not the only ones you have. You're 105, everything you have is on a floppy disk :P/>
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Posted 28 November 2013 - 02:45 AM
Only the naked pics of you are on my floppy because they wont go hard :P/>
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Posted 30 November 2013 - 09:07 AM
I also have a really old IBM PC PS2. It's sweet. My brother even has DOS 5, unopened! It has my IBM on the back! Sweet!
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Posted 06 December 2013 - 11:13 PM
My parents still have some old floopys lying around. When my firend gave me his computer ( It was junk, anyways ) He provided me some old floppys even though the computer didnt have a floppy drive. My school along time ago used to have Mac os 9 machines, and im pretty sure those used floppys. ( The old principale threw those away and found some old monitors and Pcs and the junk yard and gave it to us for replacment xD )
Edited on 06 December 2013 - 10:13 PM
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Posted 07 December 2013 - 08:17 AM
I still have windows 3.1 on 8 disks!
Don't lie, they're not the only ones you have. You're 105, everything you have is on a floppy disk :P/>
Somebody could have given the computer to him as they got a "better one".
As for me, I don't know what's sitting in the garage by now :)/>
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Posted 07 December 2013 - 08:41 AM
I still have windows 3.1 on 8 disks!
Don't lie, they're not the only ones you have. You're 105, everything you have is on a floppy disk :P/>
Somebody could have given the computer to him as they got a "better one".
As for me, I don't know what's sitting in the garage by now :)/>
Its an inside joke between redeye and myself.
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Posted 07 December 2013 - 08:55 AM
[media]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx_vWkv50uk[/media]
This gut repurpused his floppy disk drives.
Wow, That's just so awesome! :D/>
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Posted 11 December 2013 - 12:11 PM
The controller for my CNC Mill is an old Xeon 550 and the software runs in DOS. It's all sneaker-net to get data from the PC to the Mill.
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Posted 14 December 2013 - 10:07 AM
I never used a computer when these were out, but I have to ask, was it fun getting a virus?
[video]
http://www.youtube.com/embed/yHJOz_y9rZE?autoplay=1[/video]
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Posted 14 December 2013 - 11:25 AM
Too young to have used a floppy :D/>
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Posted 14 December 2013 - 11:28 AM
Too young to have used a floppy :D/>
It's ok. I forgive you.
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Posted 14 December 2013 - 11:45 AM
So do I get my glasses back now?
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Posted 16 December 2013 - 11:48 AM
I use them because my keyboard uses them. I use school computers to actually get the songs I played off the floppy disk :P/>
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Posted 17 December 2013 - 10:02 AM
I was digging though my mums old stuff and I found a disk but I have no idea what's on it because my computer doesn't have a drive I'll be willing to ship it to someone who could read it
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Posted 17 December 2013 - 12:16 PM
I'll be willing to ship it to someone who could read it
That doesn't sound like a very good idea…
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Posted 24 December 2013 - 10:36 AM
Oh wow yeah I use them all the time. Code saves, game backups. There again, I am a retro guy with poloroids and an atari so…
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Posted 25 December 2013 - 06:15 PM
My first PC had a CD reader (no burning or DVD's) and TWO floppy drives. I also had a digital camera which took floppies. This was only actually about 10 years ago, my first PC was old when I got it :P/> FastVoodoo graphics :D/>
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Posted 08 August 2014 - 06:19 PM
I got a windows 98 floppy… my music teacher at school found it unopened and knows how I like computers and old operating systems and stuff so he gave it to me… the downside is I don't actually have a floppy drive… I might need to salvage the one out of my old XP machine :P/>
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Posted 09 August 2014 - 12:55 AM
Well since this has been resurrected, I still keep a USB floppy drive and some floppies laying around. I have a couple of relatives who refuse to update and sometimes it's nice to be able to quick make a DOS boot disk.
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Posted 11 August 2014 - 10:29 AM
I still use floppy disks, I have
ShadOS Standalone on my best floppy, but that's all I use it for, a cool place to store stuff (even if it only holds 1mb). I use a USB floppy disk and had to edit base ubuntu files to get it to load. What do you guys use them for?
EDIT: Quick hint if you are interested, SSA 0.4A will have a zip file tool.
I have a PC that has a 3.5" floppy reader. I use Mikeos on If. I love the floppI reading noise