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When was the last time you used a floppy disk?

Today
16 (5.4%)
This week
22 (7.4%)
This month
23 (7.7%)
Several months ago
45 (15.2%)
Over a year
29 (9.8%)
Over two years
29 (9.8%)
Over three years
95 (32%)
Never
38 (12.8%)

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dala74



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    Re: January monthly poll
    « Reply #15 on: January 04, 2009, 05:57:39 PM »
    Quote from: devcom on January 04, 2009, 06:19:35 AM
    i've used them more then 3 years ago but i dont remember for what  ;D

    Who of you used bigger than 3½-inch floppy ? I've never seen bigger  ;)

    I did in 1983.  It was the first computer I had ever worked on for my job. ;D
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    Re: January monthly poll
    « Reply #16 on: January 04, 2009, 07:15:31 PM »
    That reminds me... all my Windows 3.0 floppy disks are shot... sat for too long.
    They ware too easily.

    Anyways, last time, a few months ago.

    My server has a floppy drive in it. On my old server, I had boot device selection issues... I had to use a boot manager that ran on a floppy to boot from the CD drive, otherwise it would just boot to whichever hard drive could boot.

    I keep the floppy around just in case. The "new" used server doesn't need it.
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      Re: January monthly poll
      « Reply #17 on: January 04, 2009, 09:02:41 PM »
      About four months ago to install Raid. Intel sends it as a floppy. I had to buy a USB floppy to install it.
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      Re: January monthly poll
      « Reply #18 on: January 04, 2009, 09:41:31 PM »
      I can't remember the last time.  I'm sure it's been several months but I think probably not over a year.
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        Re: January monthly poll
        « Reply #19 on: January 04, 2009, 10:32:58 PM »
        what is a floppy disk used for? lol
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        Re: January monthly poll
        « Reply #20 on: January 04, 2009, 10:33:50 PM »
        Besides slow transfer speeds, I found that floppies were unreliable, since they only lasted so long.
        I would often MEGA COMPRESS! my floppies to the extreme, tripling their size (to about 3MB).
        This is awfully hard on a floppy, as you can imagine.


        Then I got a 37MB flash drive. The speed alone made me forget floppies. Also, the 37MB flash drive worked with my Macintosh, so I could get updates on it.
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          Re: January monthly poll
          « Reply #21 on: January 04, 2009, 10:38:13 PM »
          Oh so floppies are something unreliable.
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          Re: January monthly poll
          « Reply #22 on: January 04, 2009, 10:43:23 PM »
          Quote from: Ivy on January 04, 2009, 10:32:58 PM
          what is a floppy disk used for? lol
          You're kidding, right?  :o  Here, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
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            Re: January monthly poll
            « Reply #23 on: January 04, 2009, 10:46:04 PM »
            Ofcourse I was just kidding.

            Thanks though ;)
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            Re: January monthly poll
            « Reply #24 on: January 04, 2009, 10:49:44 PM »
            A few years from now, people will be wondering why we use a floppy icon for the "Save" button in word processors and other programs...

            "What the heck is that supposed to mean?"

            My cousin still has some 5 1/2" floppies... I only have one. Though, I remember when I was in elementary school... we had computers from the late 70's (Apples)... they had the old floppy drives.
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              Re: January monthly poll
              « Reply #25 on: January 04, 2009, 10:50:37 PM »
              I actually have never used a floppy...oops
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              Re: January monthly poll
              « Reply #26 on: January 05, 2009, 07:15:58 AM »
              It was last month when I was reformatting an old Compac PC. For some reason that was the only way I could install the operating system by using 6 floppy set up disks that I download from Microsoft. I tried using my Windows XP CD but the PC would not recognize the cd drive until I used the floppy's. The PC is up and running fine..
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              Re: January monthly poll
              « Reply #27 on: January 05, 2009, 09:14:06 AM »
              I use almost every week, to do the logical partition image, turning the ghost by the floppy drive.

               ;)
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              Re: January monthly poll
              « Reply #28 on: January 05, 2009, 10:08:17 AM »
              Quote from: Zylstra on January 04, 2009, 10:49:44 PM
              A few years from now, people will be wondering why we use a floppy icon for the "Save" button in word processors and other programs...

              "What the heck is that supposed to mean?"

              My cousin still has some 5 1/2" floppies... I only have one. Though, I remember when I was in elementary school... we had computers from the late 70's (Apples)... they had the old floppy drives.


              5 1/4", not 5 1/2". not that it really makes a difference.

              there were 8" floppies before them, too.


              EDIT: oops, almost forgot my addition to the Poll.

              I believe I used one in the last month, as I recall copying a Doom2 wadfile from my PC to my DOS/win31 laptop. I use them pretty often, but as Zylstra says, they go bad fairly quickly.
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              Re: January monthly poll
              « Reply #29 on: January 05, 2009, 10:12:10 AM »
              This week. Made a bootable floppy.
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