Who still uses floppies these days?

["Bible John" <johnw_94020@yahoo.com>]

Presently I work in a printing shop.  Everyknow and then a customer will 
drop by a business card, letterhead, or whatever on a floppy disk.  This is 
not often (CD and USB flash rule) but I most definately get more floppies 
than zips. In the 3 months I've been working there I have received probably 
no more than 10 floppies, and not a single Zip disk.

Then I am wondering who is still using floppies these days?  I visit aa 
local retail store, and I've seen 10 large boxes of 100 floppies that just 
sit on the shelf. They've been there for months and people are not buying 
them.

On my old PC laptop I have no choice but to use floppies, since it cannot 
use any USB flash drive.  So when I want a document to travel from my old 
laptop, to ibook, and then to XP desktop, it must be on a floppy.  So for 
that reason, I bought a USB drive for my ibook. Sure Wifi is cute, but then 
again a hub would cost more than a floppy drive, and besides some people in 
some locations do not have broadband Internet.  This is not my case, as I'd 
rather not surf tthe Internet 24/7, which would be what would happen if I 
installed a Wifi network.

I did some research and discovered a company that specializes in floppies.

http://www.floppydisk.com/floppy-disc.html

I read this

We process thousands of floppy discs each day...

Who uses that many floppies?

Here are the 10 reasons why floppies continue to rule!
1. Writeable and Rewriteable in seconds.

2. Highly compatible with millions of computers.

3. With no hole in the center, they make better coasters.

4. Very inexpensive.

5. Available in lots of colors.

6. Easy to label with custom information.

7. Duplicated in seconds not weeks.

8. Easy to recycle.

9. Content is a manageable size.

10. Great people like us still sell them!


So are you guys buying from this company?  I mean if I had the need I would, 
but the 50 pack of floppies I bought a year ago still seems to be going 
strong.  I have about 10 disks remaining, so I may need to buy another 50 
pack soon here. I like the colors.



John








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