Posted July 13th, 2005 @ 04:25pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: When is the last time you used a floppy disk?
My Answer: 1995. Yes, it's been 10 years.
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Posted 13 Jul 2005 at 4:37pm #
As old Macs are a hobby of mine, it hasn't been that long ago, probably a few months.
Posted 13 Jul 2005 at 4:42pm #
Yesterday. I needed to boot up to Win98 to solve an issue 🙁
Posted 13 Jul 2005 at 4:56pm #
Yesterday.
My wife doesn't like me putting my pint glass on the wood coffee table.
Posted 13 Jul 2005 at 5:10pm #
A few months ago at work, to get the Windows XP installer to load a RAID driver. (Yes, that's right, the Windows XP installer can ONLY load drivers from floppy!)
Then I realized that the floppy drive was broken (on a brand-new Dell) and decided that it wasn't worth messing with it. I was about to put the file on a USB flash drive (the Dell BIOS has a nifty "make a USB flash drive look like a floppy disk" option) but then I found the stupid BIOS option to disable the RAID controller and make it work like a normal SATA controller. (there was only one disk in the machine anyway, so it's not like I needed a RAID)
Aren't PCs lovely?
Posted 13 Jul 2005 at 5:28pm #
Yesterday at work to move something to a machine that isn't on the network.
Posted 13 Jul 2005 at 5:51pm #
About 2 years ago, to make a floppy disk RAID 🙂
Posted 13 Jul 2005 at 8:48pm #
Today, in fact.
I had to sneakernet between a couple of older PCs that lack ethernet.
Posted 14 Jul 2005 at 9:10am #
Yesterday. I use them at work all the time.
Posted 15 Jul 2005 at 6:26am #
I often get floppies from customers (yes, in 2005 still) that i have to read in, or convert its contents
since my Rev-A Wallstreet 292 doesnt like OS X, i run 9.2 and .. this has the swappable CD/Floppy 🙂
On another slightly offtopic note, How would I play Turrican on my A500 without a floppy 😀 (on the Amiga 600HD, right answer, yes)
Posted 15 Jul 2005 at 8:59am #
Oddly enough, 2 weeks ago. My new machine has a SATA controller, and to install Windows XP I had to put the SATA drivers on a floppy. For some ignorant reason the Windows XP installation can't loa drivers from a CD. I had to traack down a floppy drive for the whole mess as well. Prior to that it has peobably been 4 or 5 years since I've used a floppy.