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Floppy Burner

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DarkRukia

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Hi, I was wondering where I could get a floppy burner. I have a floppy drive and another space for a floppy burner. I need them so I can burn pics to show my friends and stuff. Does anyone know where I could find one? Newegg.com doesn't have any.
 
You're going to have to enlighten me because I have no idea what a floppy burner is. A google search proved fruitless.
 
...um...do you mean a regular floppy drive? Or a cd burner? I don't recall those two mating and having some crazy child...it's either one or the other. The thing that you stick the square plastic disk into, or the thing that you stick the round shiny disc into? lol sorry for sounding childish, but I need to know what you're talking about...
 
a floppy burner, hmm... sounds weird, only think I can think of for a floppy burner is to throw your floppy discs into fire. that or you could set them on your stove top or oven you know, that would pretty much work, cause you can put files on floppy discs easily.
 
Floppy drives write to floppy disks. You don't 'burn' floppies. I thought you had stumbled upon some bizarre niche product that few would ever use (like DVD-RAM).

So are we talking about a drive bay that's 3.5 inches long or 5.25 inches long?
 
The same size as my floppy drive....I was told I could only burn data onto a floppy disc using a special floppy burner.
 
Well, whipped out the camera. Sorry about the relative darkness of the pic, I just fired off the flash and went, and just resized it.

drives.jpg


If we're talking about something like that small black drive on the bottom of the pic, it reads and writes floppies! It's not like cd rom drives that can only read cds, and cd-rw drives that can write to blank cds too.

Whoever told you was yanking your chain. :D
 
Let me help you. This...

Floppy_Drive.jpg


Is a floppy drive. It reads from and writes to these...

Floppy.jpg


Which can hold around 1.4 Megabytes of data. If you are using a 2+ megapixel camera (or really most any digital camera), this won't hold many pictures. If, however, you're referring to a CD Burner...

hp_cd-writer_9500i-big.jpg


Which burns to CD's similar to those you buy at a music store, then you aren't talking about a 'floppy drive' at all, you're talking about a 'CD Burner'.


Now, I assume since you most likely weren't around when floppy drives were in use (which is kind of hard to imagine, but I guess I'm not so young anymore), you're probably confused as to why the device that writes to floppy disks is not called a 'floppy burner'. This is because the only reason a CD-Writing device is called a 'CD Burner' is because it uses a laser to burn little holes into the CD. The floppy drive (if I understand correctly) uses magnetic fields to read/write data onto a floppy disk (similar to a tape player or VCR, if you remember those ancient devices!).





P.S. (No offense, but how did you even get on the internet?)
 
lol.. yeah, all floppy drives write and read. No special drives/software required.
 
ROFLMAO! Who ever told you about a floppy burner is a complete computer idiot. Any floppy drive can wirte to a floppy. Try this out... open windows explorer, put a blank floppy into the drive, highlight a file and copy it, click into the floppy and paste. Wallah. Sorry to sound so harse, but WOW.
 
LOL Insanarchist.

Remember the days when cd drives only read cds, and only at 2x speeds? Or when zip disks and jazz drives were the biggest things ever? Yeah, good thing DVD+/-R exists.
 
BillLeeLee said:
LOL Insanarchist.

Remember the days when cd drives only read cds, and only at 2x speeds? Or when zip disks and jazz drives were the biggest things ever? Yeah, good thing DVD+/-R exists.
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Haha, I remember buying a soundcard and getting an 8x cd player, powered speakers, a joystick, and a 5-game bundle on the BIG floppy discs! Boy, that was fun!
 
Oh man...I planned on you guys getting a few laughs but this made me look like an idiot....I realized that there was no such thing as a floppy burner.....how would I build my computer if I thought something like that?

For the people that thought I wasn't joking and helped....thats nice of you...if I was truly uninformed.
 
insanarchist said:
Haha, I remember buying a soundcard and getting an 8x cd player, powered speakers, a joystick, and a 5-game bundle on the BIG floppy discs! Boy, that was fun!
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I doubt that I am as old as you guys, if close, but I even remember playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on the 5 and 1/4 (if I remeber right) drives. Those are the true floppies!
 
insanarchist said:
Is it still against forum rules to post the words 'st00pid n00b'?
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Probably would be considered flaming, but not in this case :D st00pid n00b! :p

(j/k of course, please no b7!)
 
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