Michael J. Mahon wrote:
I have nothing against floppies--in fact I always configure my machines with a floppy drive--but they have very limited capacity for today's world. I couldn't even fit two .jpg photos on one! Of course, your older machine probably isn't a very friendy environment for 800KB .jpg files, either. ;-)
My camera typically gets between 14 and 25 pictures on it's floppies using fine quality mode... mind, it's a Sony Mavica FD-71, uses floppies, has a 10x zoom and takes 0.3MP photos (640x480) I found it for $10 at goodwill a week after my $450(at the time) 4.3MP Nikon died on me just a week out of warranty and was told they wouldn't fix it under warranty over a whole 7days(at which point I decided I wasn't buying another Nikon ever again) <http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=116&showentry=783>
Anyway I take lots of pictures of things, places and people with my Sony Mavica, works well, saves on 1.44MB HD floppies with it's double speed floppy drive. Whenever I go on a trip, I just stop off at the store I work at and buy a 25 disk cube back of fujifilm 1.44MB floppies to take along with the camera. They print out pretty good at the one hour photo department at 3x4 size so I guess I just don't care that much about getting something newer. I've even bought wide angle and telephoto lense atatchments for it on ebay because I found them at a good price
I have also bought floppies from floppydisk.com I bought a couple hundred Double Density 3.5" disks and zipped through them in about half a month filling them with games and other odd apps on my IIGS.... got some more at a lower price from meritline... so many bad floppies in those meritline ones... I'll be getting my next batch from floppydisk.com even though they're more expensive because disk errors are apsolutely irritating. You really do get what you pay for.
I use floppies a lot... I have a USB floppy drive on my Mac so I can read the floppies from my camera or put files on floppy for my older Macs... I use them on my Apple IIe, IIgs, Amiga 2000, and Commodore64 and SX-64 regularly too... Then there's the IBM compatibles that everyone else in my family uses...and my 286 computer...
Floppies Flopppies everywhere. boxes and drawers and buckets of them..well maybe not buckets.
-Matthew S. Carpenter