Re: Who still uses floppies these days?

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

<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>

I do have a PCMCIA adaptor for using CF flash. But the CF disks are 
expensive, and floppies are dog cheap.

Or is this not want you were talking about?  All I know is that my laptop 
cannot use USB flash drives, nor any other USB hardware that requires the 
laptops power. So basicially I am stuck with floppies.

But my older PC laptop laked USB period. If I wnated a CD burner I needed a 
Parallel or serial one, and they are hard to find these days.

My Compaq reads and writes floppies fast. It must aheva  higher end floppy 
drive in it, as in 4 years I have had no more than 5 disks go south on me.


John


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"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> 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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>
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