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Old July 21st 03, 01:54 PM
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:21:06 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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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


I haven't used one in almost 4 years, there is nothing you need it for.


except for installing drivers for my RAID controllers I haven't needed
one. NOw if MS would just let you load them from a CD, during the
install, I could get rid of my floppy but Noooo they insist on a
floppy
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Old July 21st 03, 01:57 PM
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:17:56 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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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.


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Old July 21st 03, 01:59 PM
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:50:26 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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Get one for sure. Only $10 and you will need it to upgrade your BIOS
and for other purposes.


No, you do not! This is no longer 1994. Any BIOS can be flashed from a
CDROM/RAMDRIVE. Yes, even the new Asus ones that have the .exe file.


DUDE give it up. There are reasons for a floppy.
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Old July 21st 03, 02:11 PM
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"Scott" wrote in message
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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


At the end of the day, Apple Macs haven't had a floppy drive for years now,
so I'm sure you could work around it somehow..

Dave


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Old July 21st 03, 03:02 PM
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:03:42 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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Wrong. There are situations where you might need it.


Name one.



There are Excel and Word files I work on at home and at my job. The
computers at work have floppy drives and no cd writing capability. I
need to have a floppy disk (and drive) to transfer these files back
and forth.

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Old July 21st 03, 06:17 PM
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"Ken Kauffman" wrote in message
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I had blue screens in XP that erased my flashcard in the process. This

has
happened 3 times. Reinstalled OS and drivers took care of the bsods.

ken k


What drivers? There are none required for USB in XP.



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Old July 21st 03, 10:57 PM
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At the end of the day, Apple Macs haven't had a floppy drive for years

now,
so I'm sure you could work around it somehow..

Dave


I work in a Graphic Design studio and we had to buy an external floppy drive
for our macs.
Not everyone updates their equipment as fast as they should (or could) and
floppy disks are still used daily.
Most profitable businesses have a 7 year time period before they are due to
update.
Also most of my PC customers still use floppies (with hundreds of stickers
on top of each other so you can barely fit it in the drive ) for small
jobs sent to us.

For a 'normal' PC user it is easier to use a floppy disk than create a Ram
disk or a bootable CD. Most people could insert a floppy disk. I could only
name possibly two people I know who could create a Ramdisk and only a few
who could create a bootable CD.

For the sake of a couple of packs of smokes, or a round of drinks an
internal floppy is very worthwhile.

Blakey


 




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