This is sad ( in a geeky kind of way): PC World announces end of the floppy disk.
Apparently they are no longer going to stock the 3.5″ floppy disk, once they have sold off existing stocks. To think, that it was only as recent as 1998 that they were still selling 2 billion disks a year. They make some valid points about how a single image from a modern digital camera wouldn’t fit on one (on top resolution, my camera churns them out at about 4Mb each), and I couldn’t tell you the last time I used one.
Still think it’s kind of sad though - what’s worse is that my first PC had a 5.25″ drive on it & I had to pay extra for the delights of a 3.5″ drive. I also remember the cheap thrill of buying unformatted disks to save a few pence, and then formatting them myself (No, don’t leave! Come back, I’m really not that boring…).
Mind you, it must be 6 years since I last had a PC with a floppy drive on - has yours still got one? RIP Mr Floppy…
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I have no floppy!!
Of course not, you’re a girl…..
well after the op i am!lol!
Poor Floppy…my comp doesn’t have one now, I remember the good old days
Yes, I have a floppy drive. It’s my back-up plan. Every night I back up my day’s work, such as it is, to my floppy and cart it home. Eventually, I put it into the machine at home.
No other method will keep the file TIME-STAMPED the same — and that’s what I need to make sure that the letter or brief or time sheet HERE is the same as the document THERE — and a time stamp may be necessary to prove (if only to myself) when something was done.
This is a dark day for me indeed.
In fact, I had to order the floppy drive special on my last home computer and put an external floppy on my laptop. But — Mr. Technical — give me another way to accomplish my purpose that allows me to keep my time stamp.
Hmmmmmmmm?
did you see this?
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Starship-Enterprise-Out-of-a-Floppy-Disk
I’m thinking about having a contest at work….
That’s genius Katherine, I think I can squeeze a post out of that link (with some proper attribution of course!)
Curmudgeon, you’re quite right, things like flash drives etc. do change the date/time to when the file was transferred onto it. I shall look into it…
Thanks. I’ll look forward to that.
lol, I have an old pentium 233 laptop with a floppy that I still use. It’s so old it doesn’t even have a DVD in it. Works a treat still and I use floppies with it still (not that I use it to often these days).
My first Pentium was a P90 and cost me £1300
I’ve spent some money on PC’s, still what else would I have done with it?