Building PC, to floppy or not to floppy?

NoRemorse wrote:
Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop to a
school computer, so I can print it out.

Quicker over a network. If you or your school is not connected, shame on
you/them.

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

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.

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

jaeger wrote:
Am I the only one here who's paying any attention? I already noted
that interfacing with archaic machines is a unique reason, albeit one
that has no bearing on this discussion if you go back and read the
original post.

"I have a LAN and the other computers have floppies"

Guess you're not paying attention.

:-)

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

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:34:37 GMT, "Scott"
wrote:

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


Only $8 and you never know...

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...

"Scott" wrote in message
et...
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.

They cost £5 - why NOT include one ? You don't lose anything by having one !

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:16:45 GMT, jaeger waffled
on about something:

In article ,
says...

Adding 3rd party hard disk drivers or raid drivers during setup

You can add the drivers to a custom WinXP CD. In fact, this is the
smart way to do it since you can add all your drivers, plus you can set
the switches so that you don't have to babysit the install.

System recovery using partition magic, nortons, others.

Partition Magic will recover from the install CD. Ghost is crap unless
you do enterprise deployment, but the image disc itself is bootable.

Fine if the floppy-less pc isn't you're only pc... But if it is you're
gonna have a few problems making that CD. :-D

I must admit I very very rarely use a floppy, but at times it's useful
for...

- Bios update
- Transferring a few files to a machine that's not on the network
(usually it's the NIC drivers I'm transferring and assuming it's not a
Intel 20meg driver package, I still can't bring myself to waste a CD
on 300K of drivers!)

Only the other night a friend asked me to help him install win2k onto
a brand new machine he was building which had a sata hard drive...
Needless to say an F6 3rd party drivers install was required and the
drivers he had on the supplied CD just didn't work... A quick download
from the net on my laptop and a floppy disk later... tada... working.
No cdr on my laptop, and I wouldn't for less that a floppies worth of
temp files anyway!

My question back to you would have to be...

Why waste a CDR on 1.4meg of files that are only going to be required
for 2 minutes and never wanted again?

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...

D0d6y.
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MUSHROOMS ARE THE OPIATE OF THE MOOSES

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:35:04 +1000, "R_Supp"
waffled on about something:


"jaeger" wrote in message
. net...
In article xBMSa.111849$H17.34965@sccrnsc02,
says...

sarcasmYes, you did./sarcasm Did I say he was building a laptop? I
was
citing an example for a situation in which a floppy drive is useful.
It's a
good fallback low-tech solution for certain data transfer situations.

Laptops are different, and not really relevant here. For a laptop that
interfaces with a variety of systems then yes, possibly, a floppy is
useful. But not on a desktop.

Obviously you don`t own a lappy. You don`t know what you are missing. Then
again, if you don`t leave the house you wouldn`t need a lappy.

LMAO!

D0d6y.
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MUSHROOMS ARE THE OPIATE OF THE MOOSES

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:38:01 -0400, "Roger Zoul"
waffled on about something:

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...

Unless you happen to be working with NT 4...
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MUSHROOMS ARE THE OPIATE OF THE MOOSES

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.