Re: Who still uses floppies these days?

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

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"Michael Paoli" <michael1cat@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Bible John wrote:
>
> 11. easier handling than CDs/DVDs (less fragile, integrated container
>    that's scratch and shock resistant and protects the media).
> 12. withstands much greater number of rewrites than CD-RW/DVD+-RW

I agree. I think tapes have that same advantage.

>
> I certainly still use them semi-frequently, for relatively
> small/modest bits of data transfer/backup.
>

As do I

> And in the (mostly) redundant categories:
> o Much faster writes than CD-R[W]/DVD+-R[W] for small/modest amounts
>  of data (2x USB floppy write speeds also speed that up a bit more).
> o Available and inexpensive - though lowered production of new
>  floppies seems to have driven up retail prices, good used floppies
>  tend to be dirt cheap to free, and rather to quite available.  I
>  tend to stock up when I find prices <~= $0.10 USD per 3.5" floppy
>  (I got about a few hundred for $10.00 USD several years ago, and
>  about another 25 to 50 for $0.25 USD within the last couple years).
>  So ... I probably have enough floppies to cover my needs for quite
>  a while to come (perhaps a lifetime).  I do a full overwrite
>  formatting of the ones I pick up, and the vast majority of them
>  (>~=97%) turn out to be perfectly good floppies, passing all
>  verification checks fine.  "Of course" this price/supply situation,
>  and their still relatively wide support, won't last forever (e.g. on
>  http://www.floppydisk.com/buy.htm note that the LOW DENSITY DS/DD
>  diskettes are *more* expensive than the HIGH DENSITY DS/HD
>  diskettes).


Why is that?


> o Various colors and such are handy - for a small set of
>  (semi-)frequently used floppies, one can remember what's generally
>  on what, without even bothering to (re)label the diskettes.
>
> I probably also still have several hundred 5.25" floppies, but I use
> those relatively rarely these days.  I have some 8" floppies, but
> alas, I've never had, and don't yet have an 8" floppy drive, ... so I
> don't have too much use for those ... at least yet.
>

I believe I have 6-8 5.25 inch floppies. I do not believe there is a way to 
open the disks on a modern PC or Mac.  Or is there?


I know OSX cant read ProDOS, and I doubt XP can.



John



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