Building PC, to floppy or not to floppy?

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:20:18 +0000 (UTC),
(Bite Me) wrote:

Also, keep in mind that you do not want to restrict yourself to only one
means of transferring information. I'm doing this on a laptop and often
transfer files back and forth to my desktop. For files less than a Meg I'll
use a floppy. For files up to 128 MB's I can use the Handy stick. For files
larger than that I can hook up a Parallel cable and use Laplink. If worse
comes to worse and the Laptop crashes I can pull the Harddrive and use an
adaptor to transfer all the files to the Desktop.

Have you thought about a network ?

"Scott" wrote in message . net...
I'm considering not putting a floppy drive in my new computer. I have a LAN
and the other computers have floppies. Anyone see a reason why I should
include one? Thanks.
-- Scott
****
Scott, I aways keep both A and B floppies in my computers even if not
used a lot. the cost is near nothing.
I sometimes copy from one to the other for small files
or read files between them for comparing data on 2 disk's.
there are other reasons for keeping them on line and handy.
you may just wish you had put one in one day when you have a need for it.
Denny.

Hi,
FDD costs only 10.00, maybe. Even for using once, I'd rather have it.
Most PC case has a room for it and mobo has controller built-in, so
why not?
Tony

Ben Pope wrote:

Dodgy wrote:

Final thought - You know there's never a CDR about when you want one,
but you can always find a floppy... Usually in the box the CDROM came
in...


I tend to have the opposite problem... loads of blank CDs, but no floppies,
mind you I tend to snap the forever corrupted floppies in half, so as not to
waste my time attempting to use them again. It seems as though I went
through my whole collection of floppies as they were all fscked up.

Ben

Tony Hwang wrote:
Hi,
FDD costs only 10.00, maybe. Even for using once, I'd rather have it.
Most PC case has a room for it and mobo has controller built-in, so
why not?
Tony

No real reason, when I build my new machine, I'll put one in. I just hate
the damned things.

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string...

No real reason, when I build my new machine, I'll put one in. I just hate
the damned things.

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string...



I hate them too Ben. My new laptop is floppyless, but I have one on the
desktop so if push comes to shove I can just connect to the network and go.
I wouldn't build a system without it, although the bootable MS readers are
getting to be very appealing. My laptop is a Sony Vaio (I also use Sony
digicams) and I have heard you can set it up in bios to boot from the
built-in MS reader although I haven't tried it yet. There are just to many
instances when I would rather just have the floppy rather than go through
all the other time consuming steps to create a special cd or whatever.

Ed

"Ben Pope" wrote in message
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Tony Hwang wrote:
Hi,
FDD costs only 10.00, maybe. Even for using once, I'd rather have it.
Most PC case has a room for it and mobo has controller built-in, so
why not?
Tony

No real reason, when I build my new machine, I'll put one in. I just hate
the damned things.

I read on one of the tech groups a while back that Win2k may require a
floppy in some cases (during install, perhaps?).

Our company decided to get digital cameras for district offices a few years
ago, and they got the Sony floppy disk (ugh!!) cameras because they were
easier for the computer-illiterate old farts to use. After being forced to
use that digicam, I found out there is quite a difference in quality among
brands of 3.5" floppy disks (whodathunkit?). Cheap unbranded disks either
didn't work or worked extremely slowly in the digicam, whether or not you
formatted the disks. The more expensive disks worked much better.

"Ben Pope" wrote in message
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R_Supp wrote:
It can be embarrasing to save your MYOB stuff to a USB device then
have your accountant tell you he can`t use it and in the meantime you
are paying in excess of a hundred bucks an hour for his services.
Kind of makes the floppy drive look good.

Kind of makes your 100 bucks an hour accountant look crap for not
investing
in a 50bucks 6in1 card reader.


How will that help with his accountant? If the accountant doesn't have USB,
he probably can't read flash cards either.

--
NoRemorse
"Expect me when you see me."

wrote:
:: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:38:01 -0400, "Roger Zoul"
:: wrote:
::
::: bp wrote:
::::: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:17:56 GMT, jaeger
::::: wrote:
:::::
:::::: In article ,
:::::: says...
::::::
::::::: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop
::::::: to a school computer, so I can print it out.
::::::
:::::: Did I miss the part where the original poster was building a
:::::: laptop?
:::::
::::: here try this
:::::
::::: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my PC to a
::::: school computer, so I can print it out.
:::
::: USB thumbdrive...
:::
:: ??
:: Don't buy a 10.00 floppy buy a 75.00 thumb drive and hope everyone
:: you deal with has USB.
::
:: yeah good one.

Nope....just the school computers....they are usually fairly
up-to-date.....no one said anything about "everyone"

Plus, a thumbdrive holds a lot more data....

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:15:19 -0400, "Roger Zoul"
wrote:

wrote:
:: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:38:01 -0400, "Roger Zoul"
:: wrote:
::
::: bp wrote:
::::: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:17:56 GMT, jaeger
::::: wrote:
:::::
:::::: In article ,
:::::: says...
::::::
::::::: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop
::::::: to a school computer, so I can print it out.
::::::
:::::: Did I miss the part where the original poster was building a
:::::: laptop?
:::::
::::: here try this
:::::
::::: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my PC to a
::::: school computer, so I can print it out.
:::
::: USB thumbdrive...
:::
:: ??
:: Don't buy a 10.00 floppy buy a 75.00 thumb drive and hope everyone
:: you deal with has USB.
::
:: yeah good one.

Nope....just the school computers....they are usually fairly
up-to-date.....no one said anything about "everyone"

Well the question is should he put one in a new PC not "tell me how to
transfer files on an up to date school PC".

Plus, a thumbdrive holds a lot more data....
No doubt

MrDancer wrote:
I found out there is quite a
difference in quality among brands of 3.5" floppy disks
(whodathunkit?). Cheap unbranded disks either didn't work or worked
extremely slowly in the digicam, whether or not you formatted the
disks. The more expensive disks worked much better.

I always used 3M or Verbatim and still found them to become corrupt far too
easily for my liking.

Ben
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I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string...