Re: Who still uses floppies these days?

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In article <1147621134_13641@sp6iad.superfeed.net>,
 "Bible John" <johnw_94020@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
*snip*




Zips are dead. the recordable CDROM market killed them off. They were 
far to expensive after the prices dropped on recordable drives and 
media. They were really great at the time, but the world did move on.

Floppies? I use them all the time myself. Booting machines, putting 
small files on to *give* to other people ( where id not want to just 
give someone a usb flash drive ). Not every PC has a CDR, and floppies 
are still cheaper for small data storage.

And of course on our retro-machines, thats about all we have to use.. I 
still have one that eats 8" disks.