I just was rummaging through my desk for sugar to add to my tea and ran across a floppy disk (you know, the firm 3.5 inch plastic casing housing the magnetic disk which held about 1.44 megs of crap in static form).
It was labeled: Linux Boot June 2003. Bet I never even checked that it worked.
So when was the last time you used/made one?
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i use one about once every month or so for rescue or what ever. use them all the time still yes.
I haven't owned a floppy dive in about 5 years. So since then, I suppose.
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At least five years. Probably closer to ten.
When I ran a DOS-based memory stick test a few months back.
You *can* burn it to a CD, but why bother?
You *can* burn it to a CD, but why bother?
yossarian wrote:
I just was rummaging through my desk for sugar to add to my tea and ran across a floppy disk (you know, the firm 3.5 inch plastic casing housing the magnetic disk which held about 1.44 megs of crap in static form).
It was labeled: Linux Boot June 2003. Bet I never even checked that it worked.
So when was the last time you used/made one?
It was labeled: Linux Boot June 2003. Bet I never even checked that it worked.
So when was the last time you used/made one?
last week to update the firmware on a raid controller card!
We still use them a few times a month with the amount of raid arrays and older machiens we still have floating around.
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About a year ago. I was trying to bring home a series of files from work before I had gmail. Now I have one of those drive thingys on a keychain.
In fact, when Flea needed one, every disk we could find was so old as to be corrupted and unformattable.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Today, actually. At my office we use USB floppies to boot Ghost to re-image computers.
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yossarian wrote:
I just was rummaging through my desk for sugar to add to my tea and ran across a floppy disk (you know, the firm 3.5 inch plastic casing housing the magnetic disk which held about 1.44 megs of crap in static form).
It was labeled: Linux Boot June 2003. Bet I never even checked that it worked.
So when was the last time you used/made one?
It was labeled: Linux Boot June 2003. Bet I never even checked that it worked.
So when was the last time you used/made one?
last week to update the firmware on a raid controller card!
We still use them a few times a month with the amount of raid arrays and older machiens we still have floating around.
Yep. Floppies are still the quickest way to update firmware in a lot of cases. It takes about 30 seconds to make a bootable floppy with a firmware update vs maybe 2-3 minutes to burn a bootable CD.
Debalic wrote:
Today, actually. At my office we use USB floppies to boot Ghost to re-image computers.
ghost enterprise FTW for fast roll outs
And when was the last time you used a 5.25" floppy?
Mine woulda been 1996, in my middle school computer lab.
3.5" floppy probably 5 years ago.
Edited, May 21st 2008 11:06pm by trickybeck
yossarian wrote:
I just was rummaging through my desk for sugar to add to my tea and ran across a floppy disk (you know, the firm 3.5 inch plastic casing housing the magnetic disk which held about 1.44 megs of crap in static form).
It was labeled: Linux Boot June 2003. Bet I never even checked that it worked.
So when was the last time you used/made one?
It was labeled: Linux Boot June 2003. Bet I never even checked that it worked.
So when was the last time you used/made one?
5.25 inch: bout 14 years ago.
5.25 inch: bout 14 years ago.
I found a Beachead 2 5.25 floppy in a box recently. Oh Commodore 64, where have you gone?
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5+ years now
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About two weeks ago or so actually. It was the first time in over a year though.
3.5... mmm, two years or so? 5 1/4, though, is a little further. I think '01, but maybe '00 instead. (Ah, the joys of an IBM PC/XT w/256k RAM. It's currently gathering spiders.)
It's been a very long time.
How come they were called floppy when they were inflexible?
CD's have lots of re-use opportunites (candle holders, mug-mats, decorative mirrors etc), but 3.5" floppies not so much. Anyone have any good ideas?
How come they were called floppy when they were inflexible?
CD's have lots of re-use opportunites (candle holders, mug-mats, decorative mirrors etc), but 3.5" floppies not so much. Anyone have any good ideas?
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trickybeck wrote:
And when was the last time you used a 5.25" floppy?
Elinda wrote:
How come they were called floppy when they were inflexible?
Edited, May 22nd 2008 8:15am by Jophiel
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Hubby and I are were cleaning out some stuff a couple of weeks ago and came across a box just filled with floppies. The kids were giggling at the archaic nature of these and my daughter thought it would be cool to glue them all together and make large building blocks out of them.
I suppose it's 6 years or so. I used them form time to time at University, when I'd used a public computer for writing essays and whatnot.
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Maybe 2 years ago when I had to flash my bios.
I don't trust those new fangled compact discs or fancy windows flashers.
I don't trust those new fangled compact discs or fancy windows flashers.
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trickybeck wrote:
And when was the last time you used a 5.25" floppy?
Mine woulda been 1996, in my middle school computer lab.
3.5" floppy probably 5 years ago.
Edited, May 21st 2008 11:06pm by trickybeck
The last thing I had on a 5.25" floppy was Madden Football 2 (published circa 1991) and it had some features I really liked which, to my knowledge, I can't do with current versions of the game (mostly having to do with controlling the offensive line). I probably last played it in 1998, so about 10 years ago.
I still own a 5.25" floppy drive.
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No seriously, I had way too much to coke and couldn't really get it up as much as she tried.
No seriously, I had way too much to coke and couldn't really get it up as much as she tried.
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About two weeks ago or so actually. It was the first time in over a year though.
This.
Oh, and BTW, I'm going to say your avatar is the Indestructable - Disturbed cover, in which case, it owns.
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