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Article #435Re: The plight of the humble floppy disk
From: Richard Rudek
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:00
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:00
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:55:08 +0800, Hunter1 <hunter1@arach.net.au> wrote: [snip] > >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. So you guys don't use any of that new fangled hardware, that upon installing or repairing Windows XP, you have press the F6 key and load the drivers from A: ? ... ;\ Happened last Friday, Adaptec SCSI RAID 320, mirrored. Went through two disks until I found a good one. PITA. :( ______________________________________________________ Richard Rudek. MicroDek, Chatswood, Sydney, Australia. ������������������������������������������������������
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