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The Post Floppy World
Don't you just hate it when some one wants some data on a floppy disk. I had to get an electronic document to some one and they insisted on a floppy disk. Not a CD-R and not by Email or FTP. I mean my notebook at home and my computer at work do not have floppy drives and I will be dammed if I had to buy an External USB floppy drive just for this. I had to email the document to my co-worker with an older computer and copy it there.
You know I also don't have a five inch floppy drive or a cassette tape drive, or a punch card reader.
I blame Steve Jobs with his san-floppy iMac and NeXT computer.
Jake at January 14, 2004 
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Yikes. Who doesn't have a CD-ROM drive these days? Even if it's just a 100k file, burning it to CD is easier than finding a way to put it on a floppy.
Posted by: jason at January 14, 2004 12:05 PM
It was for an old IBM thinkpad laptop
Posted by: Jake at January 14, 2004 12:08 PM
Yeah, and I just unhooked my turntable after it being a resting place for my many remote controls.
It's now in a sealed plastic bag under the bed.
Kinda sad...
Posted by: PromoGuy at January 14, 2004 2:29 PM
hey i still have a system setup with all the old stuff.
including the tape drive and the 5 1/4 floppy just for stupid stuff like that..
Posted by: icrazie at January 14, 2004 6:28 PM
I would personally recomend a usb flash drive, they work on all xp, 2k, linux, and linux variations. In addition they can hold more and a re faster. If you haddn't guessed, that Is what i use.
Posted by: shawn at January 15, 2004 8:31 PM
Well...I don't know. I am a technology guy. I always preferred to have a wide variety of things. Our Master Server here has some of the oldest technologies in the known world, yet I have upgraded it enough to still be useful. It has remained our master server for some time now. I install the base of most of the Unix-like Operating Systems we use on floppies, and then we install the rest over our Network FTP. Possibly you should suggest using network/internet servers/transfer methods instead of physically carrying the data.
Posted by: Brian Finniff at February 18, 2004 9:24 PM
It was just a guy with an older IBM Notebook who would not take a no
Posted by: Jake at February 19, 2004 12:15 AM
