Re: Floppies

["thewises" <thewises@enter.net>]

> 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.

I have hundreds of floppy disks. Most of them are 3.5" HD, but I also have 
3.5" DD disks, as well as a number of 5.25" disks(both DD and HD), and I 
would never use a computer without a floppy drive. BTW, I recently saw an ad 
for a Gateway PC. This computer had a panel below the floppy drive where you 
could fit a second floppy. Imagine if somebody actually put dual floppy 
drives in their sleek new 2Ghz Pentium. That would blow some minds.