Re: The plight of the humble floppy disk

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From: Hunter1
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:58

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jo wrote:

> Hunter1 wrote:
> 
> 
>>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)
> 
> 
> Last time I used one was a couple of hours ago to move a text file
> from the laptop to the main puter...


Prefer to use a memory stick myself, much easier, much more 
convenient, carries 512 meg, faster, and always on my keychain.

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