Is this the death of 3.5"
30-01-2007, 19:17
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Is this the death of 3.5"
According to the BBC, PCWorld will stop selling the Floppy Disc.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6314251.stm
I've got hundreds of them. I'm slowly putting them on my lappy via a USB Floppy drive.
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30-01-2007, 19:18
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
I reckon floppies died around 2003.
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30-01-2007, 19:20
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
only for newer machines with native sata controllers wanting to run xp etc as you will still need a from for none native sata and unless you slipstream into windows install the only way to get them in is off a floppy
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30-01-2007, 19:44
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
I haven't used a floppy for a couple of years now.  USB memory sticks have just taken over! 
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30-01-2007, 19:49
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
My wife occasionally needs to hand in assignments for a course she is doing, and they require her to send them in the post on a floppy. Luckily, I still have one 5 year old lappy that has a floppy drive.
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30-01-2007, 23:04
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
Was on a client site a couple of years ago and had to copy some configs off an old Proliant. It literally took about 45 minutes walking around the building to find someone to cadge a floppy off!
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30-01-2007, 23:18
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
I've done college courses that don't allow USB sticks,
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30-01-2007, 23:51
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
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I reckon floppies died around 2003.
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Nope, they are still widely used in business, even now - its for home use that they have dropped off rapidly in the last couple of years - the rise of USB flash sticks has done this, and will eventually kill the floppy for good, first for home users and eventually in the workplace.
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30-01-2007, 23:56
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
Were I work I only have 1 Floopy disk (contains licence for SW package), everything else is either on CD, DVD or sent via email/websites.
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31-01-2007, 00:23
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
My latest PC doesn't even have a floppy drive.
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31-01-2007, 00:30
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
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Originally Posted by Paul M
Nope, they are still widely used in business, even now - its for home use that they have dropped off rapidly in the last couple of years - the rise of USB flash sticks has done this, and will eventually kill the floppy for good, first for home users and eventually in the workplace.
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yeah, mainly cos places like the public sector (colleges and councils etc) have a phobia about USB sticks. I'm one of only 4 people allowed them in our department!
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31-01-2007, 01:36
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
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yeah, mainly cos places like the public sector (colleges and councils etc) have a phobia about USB sticks. I'm one of only 4 people allowed them in our department!
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The same public sector bodies that allow their executives to walk around with smartphones/PDAs loaded with unencrypted flash media, not to mention leaving laptops in seedy pubs
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31-01-2007, 03:17
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
Bye bye 3.5 you was sort of loyal but now you can join 5 1/4 in never never land 
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31-01-2007, 05:39
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
A couple of years ago I had to find a supplier of 5.25" floppies for an old computer linked to an even older bit of equipment (DEXA scanner) in a very old hospital. I managed to order two boxes from a tiny company in the UK.
Some of the older computers were built to last.
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31-01-2007, 06:05
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Re: Is this the death of 3.5"
Had to get floppy for my PC
so i can install SATA raid drivers
only used the drive twice
and both for install and reinstall of windows
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