January monthly poll

[alan2273]

I use a floppy drive about once a week to back up my home accounts, I also have a 250mb Zip drive.
as well as USB flash drives and a USB back up hard drive, but I have been using the floppy for that long now, it is hard to break the habit.

[Larrimmus]

Hi!
I'm new to this forum, having found you while looking to change my boot.ini file. I'm very grateful to find this resource! Anyway...

I just used a couple floppies tonight, to run "Partition Magic" to back up my system. I have a separate hard disk that I keep in a drawer with my XP system on it. I back up my system every two or three months, and usually run that program from Windows, but there was a problem at the end of that transfer tonight , so I shut down and rebooted into the floppies to clean up the mess and do the copy again. (The problem turned out to be a loose power connection to the drive I was making the copy to.) Yeah... I'm a little slow to upgrade (I didn't buy XP until a year after Vista came out!), so I still have a floppy drive.

[BatchFileCommand]

I used a floppy disk film to create ultra-violet rays to use as a backup in case I lose my remote (I'm serious).

[patio]

I used a floppy disk film to create ultra-violet rays to use as a backup in case I lose my remote (I'm serious).

Can you make me one for my garage door opener ? ?

[BC_Programmer]

what the F is "floopy disk film" and how does it make UV rays?

[computeruler]

I think he means the plastic disk thing inside the floppy but the other part I have no idea

[Zylstra]

The floppy disk "film", as we are calling it in this topic, though we should say magnetic material or magnetic disk, does in fact filter infrared.

[BC_Programmer]

The floppy disk "film", as we are calling it in this topic, though we should say magnetic material or magnetic disk, does in fact filter infrared.

true, but he implied that it "created" UV light using it.

which begs the question as to what a UV light has to do with a remote control, since most remotes use IR or radio.

[Zylstra]

The floppy disk "film", as we are calling it in this topic, though we should say magnetic material or magnetic disk, does in fact filter infrared.

true, but he implied that it "created" UV light using it.

which begs the question as to what a UV light has to do with a remote control, since most remotes use IR or radio.

I'm guessing he/she got UV confused with Infrared.

[Owldancer]

I use "floppy" often as I have a sony camera that uses them.  Very nice for taking pictures and putting them on my computer and e-mail.

[geek hoodlum]

thumb drives 

[Calum]

I use "floppy" often as I have a sony camera that uses them.  Very nice for taking pictures and putting them on my computer and e-mail.

I saw one of those once, but only once.  I was quite amazed actually.

[Zylstra]

Long time ago, in Junior High School, I had a friend with, not a MP3, but a YUP. It took a floppy disk looking thing... it was kind of cool.

[Dontcallmelate4dinner]

Today. I am trying to see if an old Toshiba T1200 laptop ,that was given to me last year, works. Had to buy a USB powered floppy drive. I put the MS-DOS 3.3 that I need onto disks. The T1200 has 1 floppy drive, and a hard drive. It powers up, goes through a memory test up to 640MB! More to follow soon. 

[BC_Programmer]

I am trying to see if an old Toshiba T1200 laptop  Had to buy a USB powered floppy drive

erm... USB on a laptop from 1987?