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Re: Floppies

"Bible John" <john.doggett@x-files.gov> wrote in message 
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> People with new computers seem to dispise floppies.  I still use them
> because I interface with older computers often.
>
> Do you guys still use floppies with your older hardware?  I'm sure if
> your a Apple II freak you probably get very irritated when a anti floppy
> critic tells you to toss all your floppies and dump your machine!
>
> How do you cope with the added irritation and how do you communicate
> with these people?  They get to me too easily.
>
> John

Here at the University of Michigan floppy use is discouraged. All the new 
PC's we get (and of course all the macs) no longer include floppy drives. 
This isn't a bad thing, I think. There are much better ways now to store and 
transport files (usb sticks, cd burners, network file storage). What kinda 
irks me though is the anti-floppy propaganda, or "flopaganda" ;-) that's 
been circulating around campus. If used with care, the odds of a floppy disk 
losing your term paper are relatively small. But perhaps this is the best 
way to get through to people who bring a floppy to the computer lab and 
expect there to be equipment to read it.

It doesn't bother me, I haven't met any anti-floppy people. On the other 
hand there are some ignorant people here that think Steve Jobs is the 
greatest thing since sliced bread..... I have a different opinion.

-Greg

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