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Re: Who still uses floppies these days?



ovalking wrote:
> In article <1147621134_13641@sp6iad.superfeed.net> Bible John,
> johnw_94020@yahoo.com writes:
>> Then I am wondering who is still using floppies these days?
> 
> I still use them sometimes. Usually for transferring small files between
> machines which are not networked, or between mac/windows, or for later
> transfer to another machine which isn't on at the time. Also used for
> startup-type utilities. I don't buy any floppies though - I have lots of
> spares. All those old apps I no longer use, or all those disks I used for
> backing up at one stage.
> 
> G.

Well on my Athlon 64x2 3800 to run/boot windows XP on the raid drive it
needs the drivers off the cd but when installing windows it doesn't
check the cdrom drives so i had to use a floppy with the drivers on it.
So floppy's still do have a use.

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