Re: The use and value of floppies today

["Bible John" <john.doggett@x-files.gov>]

"Richard Bonner" <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message 
news:egiug0$nc0$1@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca...
> Bible John wrote:
> (Snip)
>> on my ibook and desktop PC I almost never use anything but CD/DVD and
>> USB Flash. But on my old PC Laptop I only use floppies as it cant write
>> to anything but floppies. According to her the Court and legal industry
>> heavily uses floppies.
>
>> Just for curiosity what do you guys say? I post to a MSDOS and a Apple
>> II group because I think that you guys will understand, since you are
>> using old machines.
>
> ***   Not necessarily so. Yes, I do have some old 1990s 486s and Pentium
> 1s, but I also have newer, faster units. Even so, because DOS is so
> efficient, I can get away with far fewer resources to do my work than
> those running bloatware systems. I still use floppies on the newer
> machines because they suit my purpose and are fast enough for me. If I
> need faster, I use a USB flash drive. I don't do any major graphics or
> media work on my old machines, so floppies are fine. The most that happens
> are transfers of my webpages to them. Since I do that almost daily, a
> single floppy easily suffices.
>

I feel the same. I use USB flash on a regular basis, but floppies on 
occassion. I remember the good old days, when floppies and Zips were all I 
used

>
>> Like my old PC laptop cant write to anything but
>> floppies. But even this laptop is much newer than the machines that you
>> guys probably use. If all my computers were old, then I too would
>> probably buy 2 100 packs of floppies. I dumped my old Mac Performa 6360
>> last May and that machine used floppies. It could not write to CD's, and
>> I did not use USB flash. So it was either floppy, Zip or ORB. Since
>> floppies were the most universal, so I used them.
>
> ***   You might be able to put a writable CD-ROM into the old system and
> use CD-ROAST if the floppies are too tedious.

I cant.


>
>
>> I wonder if any of you work in industries that use floppies heavily
>> these days. I wonder if they exist. I bet they do. When I was out of a
>> job in January of this year, the unemployment agency I frequented passed
>> out floppies to people, and none of the computers I used at the center
>> (some 30-40) had USB or could write CD's. So I only could use floppies.
>>
>> John
>
> ***   I imagine they passed out floppies because they are cheaper than
> CD-ROMs and they are universally usable on all systems.
>

Maybe so.


>   I frequent a photo lab nearby to use its scanner for my webpage work,
> It only has floppy and CD drives. There is no way I want to write a few
> images to CDs every time I scan because I never want to keep them once
> they are on my hard drive, and I hate to have to throw out the CDs. I
> employ floppies because they are reusable.
>
>   Now if their system is upgraded to use a flash drive, I would skip the
> floppies and use it, but it is presently unavailable.
>
> Richard
>

There are many photo machines that allow USB flash, IR, Bluetooth, CD and 
floppy. I viisted SafeWay and saw one. I could use my PDA to send photos and 
pritn them via bluetooth.


John



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