What about just emailing the file to yourself? I'm sure the computer
isn't so old that it doesn't have a slot that could be plugged into a
phone jack. But that's beside the point. I have 2 Zip drives that
haven't been used in years. A floppy drive? How useless is that with
their minimal storage space?
I have a friend who trashed 17 PCs because the dump fee was cheaper
then keeping them running. With the price of PCs now, not having one
is just a waste of time as compared to crippling along on some ancient
thing. I do admit I do have one ancient one, but it only gets turned
on to play a version of Tomb Raider I have. No pun intended.
Jeff M
On Nov 8, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
"I don't understand why anyone would need a floppy drive now
days. Not
since flash drives are so cheap and hold so much more. I even have one
built into an ink pen."
--Jeff M
If there is stuff you need at work or at home that's only on floppies,
or if you're using a computer that has a floppy drive but no USB port
(and that might not be hooked up to a network you can use), then you
need a floppy drive.
Example: At work, I have to get stuff out of a Windows NT box of the
pre-USB era. It has a floppy drive. I have to move the stuff into an
iMac and a Windows XP box that don't have floppy drives, but do have
USB. Solution: a portable floppy drive that plugs into the USB
ports of
the iMac and the Windows box.
There are probably a lot of situations out there where, for some
reason
or other, a piece of antiquated equipment is still in occasional
service, and there is no money to replace the old equipment or staff
time to systematically remove the data from it.
--Constance Warner
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