"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 *********************************************************** ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
