Why do we still have Floppys!?
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- **$cuba $teve**
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The standard pc comes with a 1.44 mb floppy drive (even alienware has it) , that hasen't changed in 19 years! They may have had zip (100 - 750MB) and jaz drives (1 - 2GB) , but they never caught on!
So, my question is "Why do we have a magnetic disc drive, if the data capacity is insufficient for today's media needs?"
So, my question is "Why do we have a magnetic disc drive, if the data capacity is insufficient for today's media needs?"
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Floppies have been outdated for damn near 10 years. The biggest problem with the floppy drives is that most are only 1x, I have seen some that are 2x, that's still really slow when 1x equals 150kbp/s.
Also if you look at the computers Sony and HP have put out for (going on) two years, they don't have a floppy drive. Really it's been replaced by either frontend USB ports or a Multicard reader.
Also if you look at the computers Sony and HP have put out for (going on) two years, they don't have a floppy drive. Really it's been replaced by either frontend USB ports or a Multicard reader.
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Most machines can boot off them? it provides an easy way of sending information to older PC's? They are slightly harder to cause (physical) damage to than CD's?
Who knows maybe we just like them cause we're used to them!
Who knows maybe we just like them cause we're used to them!
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floppies are still useful, but it made me a bit sad when my brother asked me what this weird plastic square thing was and why do I have so many of them. The reason that they're not being discontinued is because they're trying to gradually replace them with cd-r's and flash memory, otherwise there will be a lot of people who still rely on them who are panicing ( or at least that's why in my humble opinion)
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for purposes of booting they're still useful
also every so often i need to transfer stuff on floppies
didnt they make 200mb floppy disks for a while?
whatever happen to them?
also every so often i need to transfer stuff on floppies
didnt they make 200mb floppy disks for a while?
whatever happen to them?
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Yeah, the only reason I have a drive on my computer is for booting purposes. Otherwise, they're really a thing of the past. I suppose really the only thing floppies have over CD's are the fact that you can reuse floppies, while you'd have to buy the more expensive CD-RW's for that.
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