Bible John wrote:
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on my ibook and desktop PC I almost never use anything but CD/DVD and
USB Flash. But on my old PC Laptop I only use floppies as it cant write
to anything but floppies. According to her the Court and legal industry
heavily uses floppies.
Just for curiosity what do you guys say? I post to a MSDOS and a Apple
II group because I think that you guys will understand, since you are
using old machines.
*** Not necessarily so. Yes, I do have some old 1990s 486s and Pentium
1s, but I also have newer, faster units. Even so, because DOS is so
efficient, I can get away with far fewer resources to do my work than
those running bloatware systems. I still use floppies on the newer
machines because they suit my purpose and are fast enough for me. If I
need faster, I use a USB flash drive. I don't do any major graphics or
media work on my old machines, so floppies are fine. The most that happens
are transfers of my webpages to them. Since I do that almost daily, a
single floppy easily suffices.
Like my old PC laptop cant write to anything but
floppies. But even this laptop is much newer than the machines that you
guys probably use. If all my computers were old, then I too would
probably buy 2 100 packs of floppies. I dumped my old Mac Performa 6360
last May and that machine used floppies. It could not write to CD's, and
I did not use USB flash. So it was either floppy, Zip or ORB. Since
floppies were the most universal, so I used them.
*** You might be able to put a writable CD-ROM into the old system and
use CD-ROAST if the floppies are too tedious.
I wonder if any of you work in industries that use floppies heavily
these days. I wonder if they exist. I bet they do. When I was out of a
job in January of this year, the unemployment agency I frequented passed
out floppies to people, and none of the computers I used at the center
(some 30-40) had USB or could write CD's. So I only could use floppies.
John
*** I imagine they passed out floppies because they are cheaper than
CD-ROMs and they are universally usable on all systems.
I frequent a photo lab nearby to use its scanner for my webpage work,
It only has floppy and CD drives. There is no way I want to write a few
images to CDs every time I scan because I never want to keep them once
they are on my hard drive, and I hate to have to throw out the CDs. I
employ floppies because they are reusable.
Now if their system is upgraded to use a flash drive, I would skip the
floppies and use it, but it is presently unavailable.
Richard