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Article #446Re: The plight of the humble floppy disk
From: Chaos Master
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:18
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:18
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Hey DalienX (somewhere@earth.com)! You wrote in message <aP1Sc.44118$K53.25491@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, at group alt.comp.freeware, on the date of Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:53:58 GMT: > Chaos Master wrote: > > > > > > Would you burn a CD to transfer, say, 500kb of data between 2 PC's? > > > > []s > > Yes i would, you can leave the disk open and add more to it later, and > regardless of wasted space a cd is cheaper and more reliable than a > floppy. A floppy here in Brazil is cheaper than a *GOOD* CD (not those cheap brands). Since I like to use only good media for my recordings. And in some computers (like at work), the PC's don't have CD drives at all (to make installing software harder), nor we can download documents from Internet. []s -- Chaos Master�, posting from Brazil. REPLY TO GROUP! MSN: wizard_of_yendor[@]hotmail[.]com http://marreka.no-ip.com Powered by chaos. Chaos. CHAOS. �|-|405.
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From: Chaos Master <chaos.master@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The plight of the humble floppy disk
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:18:14 -0300
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