Re: Who still uses floppies these days?

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"Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 14 May 2006, Bible John wrote:
>
>> Then I am wondering who is still using floppies these days?
>
> I think it's safe to say that just about all Apple II users are still
> using floppies, though I doubt many of us would waltz into your printing
> shop with a 140K ProDOS floppy and expect to get very far with it.

This company used to have Macs, but they were dumped some 6+ years ago.  But 
at that time OS 7.5.x could read ProDOS disks.

I know we have or used to have software that would allow us to read a Mac 
disk, but I doubt the software supports ProDOS.

>
> Personally, my opinion on floppies depends a lot on what kind of floppies
> you're talking about... I've found 5.25" diskettes to be extremely
> reliable, in fact I don't think I've ever lost data other than through
> user stupidity or physical mangling.

Many would argue against this.  But then again these are typicially anti 
floppy people.


> Double Density 3.5" floppies also seem to be pretty resilient, with the
> advantage of being physically tougher and more easily transportable...
> unfortunately they're pretty much obsolete in the real world.

You can find them on floppydisk.com or ebay.

> High Density floppies, on the other hand, are complete crap as far as I'm
> concerned... fine for quick data transfers, I guess, but I've had so many
> go bad in a matter of months thatI just don't trust them for any kind of
> backup. But that's just been my experience... I'm sure others will differ.
>
> -s

Its not my experience. But then again my old Compaq laptop must have a very 
nice drive in it. It was made during a time before CD-R and USB flash.  So 
floppy was the only removable media in thsoe days. So this might explain why 
the drive is so reliable.


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