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floppies (8 and 5 1/4) are already dead only the 3.5" (not realy floppy) exist anymore.
I haven't used one in ages :D
Oh yeah I had to install a realtec (realcrap) networkcard on an old puter.. I used a floppy..
Damn, I think we'll be forced to useing floppy's for ages and ages after ;)
I would like to see the floppy get replaced by the zip disk but in no time soon will the floppy disappear. After working a year in the field(contractor) I couldnt believe how much I started using floppy disks again. i.e. win 98 boot disks, killdisk (wiping old hard drives), norton ghost (imaging, and backing up pcs), server builds (used a boot disk to load drivers to install the OS over the network instead of doing it via cds), password reset reboot disks, and so many more things. I couldnt believe how many floppies i started to carry around. My favorite disk utilizes a program called MTL data recovery. It could pull data off an erased and written over hard drive. was pretty cool. just my 2 cents on the ol floppy
Floppies are as obsolete as bicycles
I think the price of writable cd's needs to drastically come down to something like $.05 per cd. I dont use floppies, but it would be nice to get cd's really really cheap. Its too bad you cant re-write over those aol discs.
I say keep them I use them for small data, but if something better comes along then I'll love that.
If not I'll still keep mine and I still have a 5 1/2 inch floppy drive laying around here some where. Why? don't know.
i use a mini cdrw.
it fits in my pocket and i can write on it a million times, what more could i want?
I think it is a good idea if the floppy disk disappear ONLY if it is replace by another solution with bigger capacity. Nowdays files becomes biggers and biggers (like music, video, ...) and if I want to give a friend a (big) file I don't want to burn a CD only for one file.
The floppy capacity is now too small and it must be replace by a better solution.
y not burn to rewritable?
also mini cd's are smaller than stanard.
my opinion is that floppies will phase out when the cdrom becomes faster to write to. now they take at least 4 times as long as a floppy. just to burn same size files.
but cd's do have more room and when they get faster the next generation will go, what were floppies. hehe
Personally speaking, floppies have always been a good practice to have.
However the arguments of cd-rw and usb devices are great....
The worries of using a large CD for a small file can be taken care of when mini-cdrw come out. :thumbsup:
While I believe that the removal of floppy drives is a good idea (due to floppy frailty and limitation on size) I would also suggest maybe having usb drives as back-ups in case of cd-rom failures for boot (as a back-up)
Just my 0.02$