When was the last time you used a floppy disk?

In My Humble Opinion
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[QUOTE=Belrix]
What’s wrong with a burned CD? Cheap, flat, and actually readable on all modern machines. You’re creating files on media that nobody in 3 years will be able to read. So what if the CD is 99% empty - they cost about a dime when purchased in large quantities.
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CDs take too damn long to burn, and once they’re burned, you can’t edit them easily. I move files along that people need to be able to edit easily–a floppy on an easy-to-read-and-write saves me time. Plus, it saves me money since I don’t have to reburn a disk every time someone wants to make a change to a file.

And yes, I know that some CDs can be burned on multiple times. But that takes too long to set up the program, and with the plethora of burning programs out there, I don’t have the time to teach every single person how to use theirs.

It’s quicker to pop a floppy drive into a USB port than it is to try to dork up three or four CDs before it burns right (and then can’t edit the file).

Tripler
. . . but CDs do make better ‘rooftop skeet’ targets.

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Just last week. I work for a small savings & loan and certain financial records have to be sent to the state of PA on a quarterly basis and the files are small enough to fit on one diskette.

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Bootdisks for the test rig I use at work. Boot, download image, rinse launder repeat.

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I’ve had to use one within the last year.

We have a machine like this at work:
http://www.gmi-inc.com/BioTechLab/Wallac%20Wizard%201470%20gamma%20counter.htm
and because it was in a special separate lab for radioactivity and wasn’t hooked up to the computer network we had to save our data to the disks and then take the disks outside the lab to get it on the network.

We couldn’t do that now if we wanted to, in our new building which we moved to last summer none of the computers have a floppy disk drive. Luckily the gamma counter is on the network.
Before I showed him how to transfer the data directly the guy who showed me the procedure (a PhD) was printing out his raw data then manually entering it into a spreadsheet :smack:

Positively medieval.