Do you still have a floppy?

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Sathsayin

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how many of you still install a floppy drive in your computer even though you don't use it. But don't won't 2 empty 3.5 inch drive bays?
 
Yes, and i even used one about a month ago, lol

Took hours to find a floppy disk that worked
 
i guess im talking more toward aeithisecs(are however the word is spelled). I also have
a bestybuy dynex 25in1 card reader cuz it accomadates my case really well.
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nice for only 17 bucks though i only will use it for compact flash
 
Sathsayin said:
i guess im talking more toward aeithisecs(are however the word is spelled). I also have
a bestybuy dynex 25in1 card reader cuz it accomadates my case really well.
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nice for only 17 bucks though i only will use it for compact flash
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I got a Sony brand one at frys for $15 when my other one died. Forgot what brand it was.

I use it for the SD and CF.
 
Yep, its useful for making driver disks (for installing windows) when servicing older PCs.
Apart from that its only functions are making my PC heavier and using electric.
 
I do not use or have a floppy anymore, if I find myself needing one I will just pick up a USB floppy.
 
Last time I used a floppy was to install the SATA drivers for XP when someone needed XP reloaded on thier alienware (hehe, rebradged sager)
 
havent had a floppy drive for about 3 years now...who in their right mind uses floppies anyway. CDs are so cheap and basically any computer can boot from them nowadays.
 
you know, i work at kinkos and it's unbelievable how many people still come in with those infernal things.
 
liar2 said:
you know, i work at kinkos and it's unbelievable how many people still come in with those infernal things.
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Some people just haven't heard of thumb drives. I still tell at least 2-3 people a week about them, and they really seem like they haven't even heard of them let alone used one.
 
yeah, I try and tell them about that too. but people fear change. old people love floppies for whatever reason... until they bring them in and their corrupted.
 
I still use them in all my systems. It's the best way to netboot a system in many cases, not to mention updating a BIOS.
 
No floppy drive or optical drive in my main system. I have a USB floppy drive and USB DVD burner. I use the Burner all the time but I think I only used the USB floppy drive once just to be sure it worked. I put everything on thumb drives these days. Drivers on one, windows updates etc on another, and all my programs on another. They are all color coded for easy use. The only time I use floppies these days are if I have to work on somebodies old legacy PC.
 
The computer lab i work at here in namibia is populated with a bunch of p2 and p3 systems so yeah they all have floppy drives, and someone recently gave us this super old toshiba laptop running win98 (really really slow) with a floppy. Looks really funny.

Even so i think i've had 2 people or so bring in floppys this part year. Everybody here has thumb drive, usually with a couple hundred viruses on them
 
The server still has one and I have a USB floppy floating around. I couldn't tell you the last time I used either though.
 
Don't have one installed on a pc but have one in my parts box just in case. Used it a couple of times to install RAID drivers for XP builds in the last couple of years.
 
i have one but have not used it since i borrowed it about a year ago, and apparently the person i borrowed it from doesnt use them either since they have not asked for it and still have the space in their case :|
 
Do you guys have any idea's for anythign i can fill up my 5.25 bays with. I have 4 left after standard dvd-rw. which i will change to a blue-ray after awhile. When ever creative comes out with there next major sound card release. I'm going to get the one with the bay panel. (wish it still looked like the audigy 2zs bay). anyhow do you know of any other place's that have panels besides xoxide.com directron.com tigerdirect.com and newegg.com I don't like any of them. All the good ones are sold out. I wish they had a wider selection.
 
NO. I was soooo glad when Vista came out; no more need for RAID drivers on a floppy.
 
My last build had the inverted floppy (where you can only access it by opening the case) but this one doesn't have one at all.
 
I threw out my last floppy drive a couple of months ago and haven't used one for years. I even remember the using the bigger floppy drives 5 1/4 inch and all I can say they weren't very durable.
 
Not right now but in my next build I will be ripping a floppy out of an old p3 comp I have laying around.
 
I still have one. It has a black face, and we all know black floppies make your PC run faster. :D

Seriously, though, I just don't think it hurts to have one and they are dirt cheap so why not? Not everyone has a flash drive.

If I want to take something to the library to be printed on a laser instead of my inkjet at home, they allow floppies but flash drives are a no-no. I suppose I could send an attachment to my yahoo acct and access it from there, but whatever.

I remember when we had zip drives as our sneakernet at home. Reminiscent of 8-track tapes now. Of course, back then, 100megs was more than you'd ever need for a single file.

I belong to a few of those survey sites, one of which lets you accumulate points to redeem for rewards. I had a bunch of points, so I checked out the available merchandise and redeemed for an 8G Corsair flash drive. Hubby promptly confiscated it, the bastard! :p
 
I have 1 but never use it. I keep mine mainly to fill the empty 3.5 bay. Mine just sits in the bay but is not even hooked up. Dam things only hold a meg anyways, no real use for them anymore for modern tasks. I can see the need for really old PC's though, say pre-PIII/PII
 
Sathsayin said:
Do you guys have any idea's for anythign i can fill up my 5.25 bays with. I have 4 left after standard dvd-rw. which i will change to a blue-ray after awhile. When ever creative comes out with there next major sound card release. I'm going to get the one with the bay panel. (wish it still looked like the audigy 2zs bay). anyhow do you know of any other place's that have panels besides xoxide.com directron.com tigerdirect.com and newegg.com I don't like any of them. All the good ones are sold out. I wish they had a wider selection.
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Yes. I oicked this one of for $20 bucks. Works great (so don't bother using headphones with it as it dosen't sound right. Comes with black panel as well:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.aspx?CurImage=13-999-110-02.jpg&Image=13-999-110-02.jpg%2c13-999-110-03.jpg%2c13-999-110-04.jpg%2c13-999-110-05.jpg%2c13-999-110-07.jpg%2c13-999-110-06.jpg%2c13-999-110-08.jpg&S7ImageFlag=0&WaterMark=1&Item=N82E16813999110&Depa=0&Description=BYTECC%20BT-818%2042-in-1%20USB%202.0%205.25%22%20internal%20Multi%20I%2fO%20card%20reader
 
Thanks for info. I'm looking for one that doesn't have anythign on it speciflily for card media are sound inputs. (I don't want multiples of anything seems cheesey if i get a lot of everything field up with same thing.I already have a 3.5inch card reader and floppy.so all i need now is the 5.25 bays. I'll be getting sound from the sound panel that comes with a creative project. I am building my computer piece by pice including everything and getting every addon logical (headphones,joystick,gamepad,webcam that stuff) as well as all panels for 5.25 bay. good speakers,nice monitor, nice case, etc. then ill upgrade the mainboard and such. ive never had an updated computer so i want to spend 50 are so at a time and buy everything then spend 500 are so on ram proccesor and board.

Does asus xonar have a bay panel?

Also i guess specifly what i'm looking for is a plane flat lcd drive bay panel that is blue lcd wiht temp and fan speed (specifly i saw a zalman one but can't find it anywhere)


anybody know?
 
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