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Re: Who still uses floppies these days?
Bible John 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.
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.
Floppies are fading away. Most new machines do not have floppy drives,
but virtually all have CD/DVD drives.
This is a natural consequence of the larger install files for popular
software packages, which is almost universally distributed on CDs or
DVDs now.
One consequence is that users see floppies as archaic. Dealers still
stock them since some people still use (need?) them, but they are
going the way of vinyl records...
BTW, if you have a PC Card (nee PCMCIA) slot on your older laptop
(and you probably do), you can add a PC Card-to-flash memory adapter
and get the benefits of a USB thumbdrive without the USB. (If you
choose a flash memory type that matches something else you use, it
will have multiple applications.)
-michael
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