I have 2 desktops and one notebook, and none accommodates floppies.
So, the floppies are one step from the trash can—unless you have a good reason for me to keep 'em.
Almost…
Mrs. Runestar and I have both replaced our home computers in the last year. Neither one has a floppy drive, however both of the computers that they replaced do.
I’ve wiped my wife’s computer’s hard drive using DBAN. My old computer though still might have some files I might need on it (we only replaced it a month ago). Just in case, I’m keeping a couple of floppies – although I could probably offload any necessary information through our home network. All the other floppies we still had have been trashed.
(Side note here - my wife’s a bit of a pack rat. It can be hard to convince her to dispose of things sometimes: “Do we really need to keep the Norton Rescue floppy for Windows 95?” “Well…I guess not.”
Once my computer’s been deemed useless, wiped, and both taken to the electronics recycling center, those last two floppies are gone. USB drives are far easier to work with.
The sound you just heard, was the clatter of my floppies tumbling into the trash.
Thanks Runestar, and tell your wife she just has to let go. 
I still have mine because [del]I’m a packrat[/del] it’s like a museum. I have 800K floppies and a few 400K as well, and the software I used as a college student in the mid 1980s.
Yep - I had 5 old desk tops from 1994 thru present. I have long since put eveything on the corresponding floppies onto the corresponding machine. Then I pulled the hard drives and scraped the machines. Simple as pie. I have all the old hard drives because I cannot wait to open them in 20 years with my kids…
"see son, this is a hard drive, it was used to store all the data we accumulated…unlike your liquid plasma storage devices of today, these babies had to work for a liv’in
Hell no! Try installing a Windows based boot-from-SAN server with Emulex (or 4 gig QLogic) HBAs without a floppy. Gott im himmel, you’ll tear your freakin’ hair out man.
At home? Haven’t had a floppy in years.
I copied the floppy images to cd years ago, and most old floppy stuff is trashed. I still use one occassionaly. I had a lot of AOL floppies. I formatted them and gave them to people with files they asked for. AOL floppies were good for that at least.
Never!
I have a synthesizer that depends on the things. Seeing as how I may soon never be able to get them again, I keep mine like they’re made of gold.
No floppies at my house, well maybe a few that I haven’t found and tossed yet. None of the machines (11 at last count) have a working floppy drive in them. We’ve moved to thumb drives, I carry two 1gig sticks and the kids each have one for there school work. all of the machines have card readers as well. Everyone has a digital camera with removable media (SD or CF). The girl have a great time snapping random pictures and posting them on there my space.
The only reason I would need my floppy disks is if I have to reinstall Windows 2000 again, so that’s four disks I keep. The rest (two boxes of Maxell) have had all their contents copied to a CD-ROM and they’re just kinda sitting there. The majority of my disks have images from when I was into CD trading. I have long since graduated to .png for images, and I have no use now for images of a resolution where a dozen of them fit into 1.44 MB.
Throw them away! Throw anything away you haven’t used in 6 months. If it’s something you love take a picture of it then throw it away, it takes up less room and doesn’t collect dust. I’m the opposite of a packrat, but I don’t know the name for it.
I had two boxes of 3.5s for a long time because I needed them for my old Sony camera - a trusty old workhorse FD Mavica - but once the camera died, I chucked the floppies.
When I saw this thread, I thought it said, Have you the courage to toss your old flip-flops? It caught my eye because I don’t use that term.
And no, I haven’t tossed out my old flip-flops either. I’m a packrat.
You might try a Floppy SD card adapter from Synchrotech.
Kewl! I’ll have to get one of those.
Go to a craft store and get some thin cork. Cut it into squares, glue them to the floppies, and use them as coasters. Extra fun if you have a set of four matching ones, like with Windows 2000 that fishbicycle mentioned.
>Throw anything away you haven’t used in 6 months.
Excellent! I just opened up an entire closet crammed with beach gear, fire extinguishers and Easter decorations.
I do, though, still have plenty of 3.5" floppies that are still in play, and a fair stack of 5.25" floppies that two working computers still use. And an 8" floppy drive, though that’s just for the sake of it.
Who here still uses slide rules, anyone?
Are you crazy?! How will I use my DOS boot disc? Or play Kings Quest? Or transfer small files between computers without internet or network access?
I still have several hundred 5.25" floppies filled with Commodore 64 programs, and I’m not gonna toss 'em.
My C-64 and all its accessories still work fine, and I have a powerful nostalgia for the old stuff.
I can just remember the last time I used a floppy. Before CDRs, before I went to college, before a lot of stuff.
I backed up my parents new computer on to something like 47 floppy discs with Win 95s auto backup feature. I can still hear the music…