Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Jul 2005 13:53 UTC, submitted by Gsurface
The floppy disk was well intended, but its usefulness is now gone. Now, over 30 years later, the floppy disk needs to go for good.
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2005-07-08
While I can't speak for others I don't miss floppies on my Mac. Neither do I miss serial or parallel ports. If I so happened to want a floppy I could get a USB floppy drive and bing, floppies. When I was going to college this past year I stored computer homework onine and retrieved it on my Mac at home. When I upgraded to Tiger I booted off the Tiger DVD.
). Needless to say we lost all our work.
Floppies can be flexible I guess. But as far as I'm concerned they are unreliable. Like for example there was this one time I was trying to find a floppy to make a copy of my old applications from my old(est) computer (a Tandy) and also from my second oldest (Compaq). But I didn't have the right type of disk and most of the ones I had didn't work on the old computer (circa late 80's computer). To add insult to injury I could not find any to buy. I ended up finding good copies of that software on abandonware sites instead.
Back when I was in high school (Win 3.1 days) everybody in my classes floppy disk got infected with a virus because some guys discovered warez (gasp! the w word
Anyway everything I said is just anecdotal and I can understand how others might still need to use floppies.