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Re: The use and value of floppies today
Bible John wrote:
I visit a certain computer store on a regular basis and I have seen some
large 100 pack floppy boxes. 2 months ago I saw some 10-12 of these
boxes. But the other day ago I only saw two. I ran into one individual
buying 1-2 boxes and I was curious as to how she was using her floppies
(as I thought that USB flash and CD/DVD has replaced floppies). I mean
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. 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.
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.
Didn't you ask essentially the same question a few months ago?
I'm beginning to suspect a troll...
Please do not cross-post to such disparate forums, since the cross-
chatter is always thread-consuming and almost never helpful.
I'm sorry, but your question (which apparently pertains only to 3.5"
floppy disks) has marginal relevance in this forum, since Apple II
users cannot easily use any of the floppy "replacements" you mention.
We use 5.25" (non-HD) floppies and 3.5" DD floppies (with the occasional
HD 3.5" floppy for those lucky enough to have SuperDrive controllers).
It isn't a matter of preferring them, it's a matter of needing them to
store data (except on hard drives and hard drive look-alikes).
-michael
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