The use and value of floppies today

[Bible John <johnw_94020@yahoo.com>]

I visit a certain computer store on a regular basis and I have seen some 
large 100 pack floppy boxes. 2 months ago I saw some 10-12 of these 
boxes. But the other day ago I only saw two. I ran into one individual 
buying 1-2 boxes and I was curious as to how she was using her floppies 
(as I thought that USB flash and CD/DVD has replaced floppies). I mean 
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. 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.

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.


Thanks,


John
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