Does the computer in front of you have a floppy drive?

one gx620 does, one does not, thin client does not

which is IN FRONT of you tom; i will eat my hat if u stacked them and use a kvm

nope, not since my college desktop died.

i keep putting 3.5" drives on my new desktops, and i keep never using them

haha define in front of me dude. I have a KVM and three monitors here on a tiger stand

thin client is sitting on the bench behind the left monitor, fatty 620 is on the floor below the thin client, slim 620 is on my right hanging under the bench on a bracket (ow my knee)

for me, 3.5" drives are more like buying baby insurance from gerber-- it sounds "safe" when i'm doing it, but WTF WHY, you know?

only the sampler behind me does.

Here at work I have one with (generic Dell) and one without (G5 Power Mac). I voted "no" because I use the latter much more often.

I voted "Yes, my other category desktop"

that woman is wearing a scrunchy. she's obv not from NY. (if you can get the reference, you're as sad as me.)

ANYWAY no fucking way. i can't remember what comp of mine had a floppy drive. about four comps ago or something?

tom, i just read that as "Yes, my other category desklap"
that's sleep deprivation (and two kids causing said deprivation) for you.

My home computer contains the 3.5" drive I got with some custom-cased HP piece of crap a decade ago which doesn't really fit in a standard case and is mainly just a gaping hole which accumulates dust. So, yeah, but I'd be kind of surprised if it still worked, really. (Though I did have cause to use it a year ago to get a Word file from my gran, whose computer is too old for USB)

Somewhere I have a Pentium 90 with a 5.25" drive. You had to ask pretty nicely for your Pentium to have such a thing in.

yeah, i guess usb and gmail pretty much made 3.5" obsolete, huh. you can even boot off usb easily these days.

i think i had a laptop like 10 years ago that had one?

Yup, still use it to take word .doc files into work, cuz sometimes emails sent there don't arrive for whatever reason. My mate built this PC for me 5 years ago. Have no idea about any of the specs, don't need nuthin' fancy anyway.

Hungry wizard concocting ingenious floppy drive exploit?

yup. i ordered it and paid extra that way because my college used them.

Hungry wizard concocting ingenious floppy drive exploit?

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http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2498

without clicking on it, is that the one that uses a 3.5" floppy drive like the older tennis ball + matchstick heads incendiary grenade trick?

child pron and associated scum were making those to fuck with the federales and USSS a while back

Can't exactly make a DVD bomb but I bet you could do nasty things with a usb stick and a bullet

oh ho ho

My old job (in a public school) operated entirely on floppies, it was the most ridiculous procedure. If you wanted a disk on a specific child, you'd call the main office secretary and she'd copy from the main server to a floppy and send it to you through interoffice mail, then when you were done, you'd mail it back. I had to buy an external floppy drive so I could use my laptop for work. A few times I'd ask the secretary to just email the file over to me instead of messing with the disks. Her reply: "I don't know how." Still, that job was better than the one I have now.

What job do you have now?

Work laptop (which I'm writing this on): no
Old desktop that's humming away noisily behind it: yes, though I'm pretty sure the drive stopped working about ten years ago.

I use an iMac and a MacBook at home and a Mac Pro at work. Not a floppy in sight.

I just got a new work computer which doesn't have floppy drive, the previous one still had it. I think my home computer has one though.

I bought an external floppy drive for my home computer; this reminds me that I need to hook it up and see if my old diskettes are still functional.

The one in front of me, mini-mac, no. The ones beneath me Dell, no. My two Dell laptops, no.

Are any computers made with floppies anymore?

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neither laptop nor home desktop.

work desktop has one.

iphone is the closest option.

Not for years. I have a Superdrive, but I haven't needed it for a couple of years now.

I have a Zip drive somewhere. Stupid freaking waste of time that was.

ZIP LOLs, however I bought a Syquest EZ135 back in the day and lost a format war.

^^^bringing back horrible memories of student press office xpost

Oh god ZIP. Those were an architecture student's lifeblood in the mid-90s. I think I still have thirty or forty of them in a box somewhere.

I not only got a zipdrive, but I practically never used it! I think that might well be the most wasteful single purchase I've ever made.
Oh well, at least I never got a big tape-backup sys for my PC like one fellow I know did.
I mean, he used it a lot, but good lord, it took forever! (He used it to store his vast quantities of pirated computer games that he might at some point in his life possibly want to try out)

Aren't we reaching the point now where CD/DVD-drives are getting phased out as well, in favor of wireless networks, memory cards and external drives? I've hardly used my drives at all in the last few years, and don't really think I'd miss it.
At my previous job I worked a lot on a thin client that was little more than a small box you could plug into a network and and hook up a screen, mouse and keyboard to. I think it used flash memory and a remote desktop. It was quite nice, actually.

Yeah, work desktop. If it's as old as the monitor that conked out on me this week it was bought in August 2002. Now I have a big-arse widescreen monitor and am the envy of my co-workers so I don't mind that I still have a floppy drive. Also, it could be useful some time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death

Lol @ "I will eat my hat!"

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I had a INTERNAL JAZ DRIVE on my mac in 1997

dang, I should have switched to my thinkpad g40 so i could have voted "Yes, my personal laptop"

lol jaz drive

never had one, was big on zips though.

(never had a Jaz drive, I mean. I'm not young enough to have never had a floppy drive.)

Somewhere on a zip disk I've got loads of BBS CHAT LOGS from the early '90s. Unless I threw out all the zip disks, which is probably the case.

Disinterred one of those portable 3.5 floppy disc readers from the early 2000s to read some floppies of mine dating back to the early nineties...and I can still read the files! I transferred them to a USB.

Good on you, mate.

I haven't had a floppy drive for most of the last decade and I finally just tossed the last of my archived disks about a year ago. I have old text files from about 1990 onward stashed on my current hard drive and backed up on a USB thumb drive. Some of them date back to my days with dual 5.25" drives and dot matrix printing. It seems worth keeping them accessable, even though I almost never need them for anything.

Conversation I had w/a student (13 years old)
Me: You can also click on the floppy disk to save.
Her: *blink blink*
Me: You don't know what that is, do you.
Her: *affirms*

I am still holding on to some of these for no sane reason...

http://www.vintagecomputer.net/amstrad/pcw8256/Amstrad-PCW8256_locascript-disks.jpg

i never understood why these were called "floppy" disks. and i don't want to. i like the mystery.

Anyone who has held a 5.25" floppy disk (or an 8") knows the reason for the name. You just joined the party a bit late.

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/51a63ee26bb3f7bd15000003/lebron-james-flop-knicks-2012.gif

I remember when 5.25" disks "went" double-sided, and they tried to get everyone to buy new "2-sided" disks, when you could turn old ones double-sided by hole-punching a bit of the edge of.

Ditto for when 3.5" went HD, and could achieve the same effect for free by drilling a hole in the right part of the case.

What do kids today do for fun?

I still have a box of ten unused 8" floppies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk

copy a:*.* a:*.*

ZIP LOLs, however I bought a Syquest EZ135 back in the day and lost a format war.

― Ed, Friday, February 22, 2008 6:57 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:(

i rly miss closing the lil latch on a 5.25 drive. locking the data in. TURN YOUR KEY, SIR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMNw99Q8Ok0

i want to sample the bit where she says 'that's pretty slick'

It looks like Star Wars.