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Article #434Re: The plight of the humble floppy disk
From: Hunter1
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:55
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:55
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Chris McDonald wrote: > "DalienX" <somewhere@earth.com> writes: > > >>The floppy is dead. >>Recently i seen a pack of 10 TDK floppys on the shelf for $12, right >>next to them was a pack of of 50 TDK CDR's for $35. Do the math 0_o > > > Recently a 1930's Bentley sold at auction for a record near AUD$7M. > There was a picture of it in the newspaper, right next to an advert > for a brand new Kia Rio. Do the math. > > Chris. The floppy truly is dead, the last time I had to use a floppy was when we could not get this old beast to boot from CD no matter what we did, and the old beast unfortunately had some important data on it that we needed to ghost. (The other alternative was to move the HDD to another PC, but the floppy was easier) It's a legacy tool, not much else. Memory sticks and CD's have replaced it with a vengeance.
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