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... if the answer to the following question is obvious to you: http://superuser.com...drives-used-for .
Have you taken your medicine already?
Have you taken your medicine already?
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heh in my teaching manual for a class it mentions floppy drives as a storage medium. This material is from 2008 which makes it hilarious. It's like they append a new date without paying attention to if the material is horribly out of date. I feel like keeping a floppy drive just to shock people. "Sorry I'm late for the presentation! Yeah I brought the powerpoint. It was large so I chained 6 floppies together. Problem?"
Also I don't know about your guys but I didn't hear about a zip drive until like the beginning of university when I got a job and found a zip drive reader in the back of a utility closet. "What is this piece of archaic technology?" My boss: "You see this was a form of data storage like the floppy disk. The university never really supported them. It could store a few 100 MB..." Apparently they never caught on in my high school since I never saw them.
Also I don't know about your guys but I didn't hear about a zip drive until like the beginning of university when I got a job and found a zip drive reader in the back of a utility closet. "What is this piece of archaic technology?" My boss: "You see this was a form of data storage like the floppy disk. The university never really supported them. It could store a few 100 MB..." Apparently they never caught on in my high school since I never saw them.
Floppys are bound to make a comeback.
Put 5 of them in RAID and they can stream a single mp3 file in real time.
Put 5 of them in RAID and they can stream a single mp3 file in real time.
I'm feeling this topic. I'm also feeling its gravity as a self-sustaining flash of nostalgia.
I should be scared. I'm literally just 16 and knew this instantly and have done since I was about 5. D:
In the immortal words of wez in the linked StackOverflow topic, who is general failure, and why is he reading my disk?!
I feel old because I had an A: and a B: drive. And I approve of every post in this thread.
Yeah, I had a couple computers before there was such a thing as a hard drive in a home computer. You had whatever floppy, and the working memory, that's all. Oh, and the floppies were definitely NOT 3.5".
I am 17 and I know that. We had a computer which such drives when I remember it right. A:\ is for 3.5" Floppys and the B: was for somewhat bigger ones
I feel old because I had an A: and a B: drive. And I approve of every post in this thread.
I had only an A: drive, therefore I am just half as old. Otoh, I know this:
Oh yeah.
Us talking about floppy disks must be like when the bearded ones talk about punchcards et al, zomg.
Haha - I'm only 19 years old but I used to use floppy drivers quite a bit.
I can remember the noise my 5.25" driver made while the PC was booting.
I hated that noise especially early mornings when I didn't want to wake my parents up since they would force me to turn the PC off and go to bed again.:-D
I can remember the noise my 5.25" driver made while the PC was booting.
I hated that noise especially early mornings when I didn't want to wake my parents up since they would force me to turn the PC off and go to bed again.:-D
I hated that noise especially early mornings when I didn't want to wake my parents up since they would force me to turn the PC off and go to bed again.:-D
Reminds me of the 56k modem. Whoever thought that not putting a volume control on those things was a good idea should die. I ended up ripping the speaker off. Still worked.
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