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. -- si vis pacem, para bellum http://www.appleiiguy.net Apple ][ Forever!
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