When was the last time anyone used one of these?

[pokerfan]

The floppy drive on my old (seven years!) computer died and I didn't even bother replacing it. My new computer doesn't even have one.

I have one of these.



It holds 320 GB. A floppy holds 1.44 MB.

[Ptah]

1. Actually, about three weeks ago.

Most of our CNC machines have drives that accept those.

[Mojambo]

2. I know. lol. I have a 16 gig drive on my frickin keychain. n/t

[pokerfan]

4. How many floppies would that be?

A thousand floppies would be 1.4 GB...

[Mojambo]

6. I was told there wouldn't be any math... n/t

[pokerfan]

7. SNL!

Old school SNL!

Nice!

[Common Sense Party]

13. "Ummm...it was my understanding that there would BE no math."

Back when Chevy was still funny.

[Mojambo]

14. Check out Community

He's been a very funny part of that cast.

[HopeHoops]

3. LOL! - About an hour ago!

I've got a USB floppy drive for my laptop and I was looking for an old image file. I couldn't find it on any of the external drives (and I've got a collective 4 TB of external storage). I didn't find it, so I'll be using more floppies tomorrow, or maybe I'll have to pull out one of the ZIP drives.

[pokerfan]

5. Allow me introduce you to the 21st century

[HopeHoops]

37. Wow! That's a great picture.

I haven't used one in a while, but I still have 5 1/4" disks and several drives that will read them. I also have a LaserDisc player that gets regular use as well as a turntable, 2 VCRs and a dual cassette deck all plugged into the same receiver. It takes two A/B switches to get everything to work. There are at least three working 8-track players in the basement, but I haven't fired one of those up in a long time. Both the VIC-20 and the C=64 have cassette drives but I also have a single-sided 5 1/4" floppy drive for the C=64 that holds a whopping 156K.

[qnr]

8. Today. Also Used a 5.25" floppy today.

[phasma ex machina]

12. Sweet. It feels like 1982 all over again. nt

[qnr]

20. heheh n/t

[kentauros]

17. I still have some 5-1/4" floppies if you need them.

They were for my old C-64 that I no longer own. I know there are some old games on a few of them, like Spelunker :)

[qnr]

19. sure, rather than just trashing them. They're pretty hard to come by these days :)

Contact me and we can work something out.

[quakerboy]

24. My dad dosnt seem to have any trouble finding them

Dunno where, and dunno why, seeing as he moved up to a newish laptop and hasnt had a drive that could read them in over 10 years, but he still finds programs that he just must have on them.

[qnr]

28. Well, I meant the 5.25" weren't easy to come by - you can still find 3.5" in stores

in some areas.

[kentauros]

30. I PM'd you on the 5.25s I have, by the way

:)

[quakerboy]

38. I meant the 5.25's as well

he does the 3.5's too, even though he had to go buy an external drive and learn to use it to use those.

[qnr]

40. OK - I misinterpreted what you meant. I thought you meant he went from an old laptop

to a newer one. Pretty hard to find a laptop that uses 5.25 :)

Yeah, you can find them, but what I meant is that they aren't manufactured anymore, so there is a limited stock available, and a lot of the time, you're buying pre-used diskettes that have been reformatted.

[quakerboy]

50. No worries

I have no idea where or why he gets them. I think he is still looking for a drive he can hook up externally to use them. He found an old scrap drive a while back, and tried to make me install it in his last desktop. It didn't have the same cables. I had never seen the cables that it had. Clear flat plastic with wiring printed on them?

[Duer 157099]

9. I still use those.

They come in really handy when the PC decides to have problems.

[NMDemDist2]

10. i use two at least twice a week to back up my old MSMoney program

it works great as my computerized check book so I've never found the need to upgrade the software

and the PC it's on is old, but fine as a print and wifi server which is about all it's used for anymore.....

[NoPasaran]

11. If you put one of those under your drink it won't leave a ring on the furniture

[ThomThom]

16. LOL

that was great

[kentauros]

15. A year or two ago.

Trying to remove all the data on them before I forgot where I was in the 200+ disks. I may have to start over.

Years and years ago, I took some of my dead ones and glued them to magnetic sign material to slap them on the roof of my car. You'd be amazed (or maybe not after reading the entries at notalwaysright.com) how many people seriously thought it was a real, and usable, floppy still on top of my car, while going 55mph or higher :P

[Captain Hilts]

18. I still do to transfer information from my laptop to other computers, actually. nt

[JCMach1]

21. I remember using AOL CD's for coasters!

[kentauros]

22. I turned those into car-magnets, too.

And people still thought they were just sitting on top of my car at high speeds :P

[Broken_Hero]

23. About three months ago actually nt

[proteus_lives]

25. Couple years ago in college.

[AllenVanAllen]

26. I have a ton of images on those that I need to transfer.

while I still have a pc with the drive. I'll probably never get around to it though...

[rcrush]

31. Tons of icons for print shop pro?

[kentauros]

32. Believe it or don't

but a lot of us saved normal jpeg and gif images on those things. That and word-processor files, text, wavs (the primary music-file prior to mp3s) and html files among other such things ;)

[rcrush]

33. I had stacks and stacks of disks for Doom and Lesiure Suit Larry

Like 30 something disks for Leisure Suit Larry. I never got around to playing it because the damn install would freeze up on like the 20th disk! I just gave up.

[kentauros]

35. Then you've never done an install for AutoCAD 11 from floppies

:P

[AllenVanAllen]

34. I've got a lot low resolution shots of my early sculpture works

on many a 1.44 disk. They'll probbaly end up staying there.

[MilesColtrane]

27. Today.

I have a sampling keyboard that needs its sounds loaded by floppy.

[bluesbassman]

29. They're great for trap shooting when I run out of clay pigeons.

Bugger to clean up though. :)

[mikeytherat]

36. Just last week!

I had a dead PC (Win XP come into) come into the shop, and when I went to get all my software, the first thing I found was an old "NT for DOS" diskette! I booted it up and salvaged most of the data from the rapidly failing hard drive.

mikey_the_rat

[petronius]

39. I have a pile of Zip drives somewhere - a whopping 100 MB IIRC

They all have labels on them like "backup" and "miscellaneous"... :shrug:

[pokerfan]

41. Yeah, me too

Seemed like a lot at the time. Then I got a CD burner.

[davsand]

42. We still have some 8 inch "big un's" hanging around.

My husband the pack rat has a slice of computer history preserved in the time capsule that is our garage:

[pokerfan]

43. I used those in college

Not exactly pocket sized.

[davsand]

49. They weren't exactly using them in laptops, back then, either. N/T

[sarge43]

44. I use them as coasters. n/t

[ipfilter]

45. It's been a while since I've even seen a 3.5" floppy.

And I work in IT.

[Vidar]

46. I still do.

[Quantess]

47. Several years ago.

2005, maybe.

[Initech]

48. Floppies? We don't need no stinkin floppies!