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tehbeermang
May 31st, 2007, 03:09 PM
I went to best buy to get a case/wallet/something for my floppy disks, the ones that come with hard drives, old disks I used for school, etc.

They didn't have any. None. Nada, Zip.

Looking at the current crop of commercial computers: there are very few floppy drives installed.

It looks like the 3.5" floppy is finally dead.
LaRoza
May 31st, 2007, 03:11 PM
I noticed that also, when I tried to get floppy disks. It is very difficult.
mips
May 31st, 2007, 03:15 PM
Best to buy a few 3.5" Floppy drives and store them somewhere for the day you no longer get them.
There have been situations before where i would have been screwed without a floppy drive.
matthinckley
May 31st, 2007, 03:15 PM
flash media seems to have replaced floppies
maniacmusician
May 31st, 2007, 03:18 PM
flash media seems to have replaced floppies
soon, SSD technology will replace our hard drives too :)
tcpip4lyfe
May 31st, 2007, 03:57 PM
soon, SSD technology will replace our hard drives too :)

Thank god.
jgrabham
May 31st, 2007, 04:22 PM
Floppy disksare cheap, small light an I can save my homework/coursework on them and give them to my teacher, and they dont need to give them back. I'm not trusting my english teacher with my flash drive! :)
starcraft.man
May 31st, 2007, 04:32 PM
HA! I laugh OP, I still got floppies on all my desktops and I got stocked up on over 250, I'm in it for a long war... I won't go down easy :p

Seriously though, just make a gmail account and attach whatever you want to a draft. The limits now 20 MB I think, thats almost 10 floppys. And then anyone can access it anywhere... or email anywhere >.>.
FuturePilot
May 31st, 2007, 04:44 PM
One time I needed a floppy drive and my desktop PC didn't come with one, so I had to cannibalize an old computer temporarily for the drive:p
tehbeermang
May 31st, 2007, 04:48 PM
I think I have 30 or so.

I have no idea how many my in-laws recently tossed.

It was one and a half boxes. Ten-ream paper boxes. I wouldn't be surprised if it was over a thousand.
Eddie Wilson
May 31st, 2007, 04:48 PM
Another thing a person can do is get an external usb floppy drive. Then you can put where ever you need it.
Eddie
prizrak
May 31st, 2007, 04:52 PM
I went to best buy to get a case/wallet/something for my floppy disks, the ones that come with hard drives, old disks I used for school, etc.

They didn't have any. None. Nada, Zip.

Looking at the current crop of commercial computers: there are very few floppy drives installed.

It looks like the 3.5" floppy is finally dead.

As dead as it may be Server 2003 and Win XP will STILL ask you for a driver on one for a RAID controller....
insane_alien
May 31st, 2007, 06:41 PM
the only time someone is replacing my floppy disks is when the pry them from my cold dead fingers. :P

i love my floppies and i won't give them away for anything.
Arathorn
May 31st, 2007, 06:55 PM
It looks like the 3.5" floppy is finally dead.
Finally. Time for a party!\\:D/
jgrabham
May 31st, 2007, 07:01 PM
Come to think of it, my English teacher still has my floppy disk case - i'll argue with him on monday!

Funny story - My teacher "James - wheres your coursework?"
Me - "Theres something wrong with the boot loader on my IBM laptop so I cant get it till I find my winxp disk, all I can get is a weird error code"
He stares blankly for a minute then - "get it for tomorrow or you're on detention"
Got away with it :)

Should work in every lesson except IT!