To blithely pass off the floppy disc as an anachronism, and unworthy of
current machines, what about those of us who have a number of old
programs that still work, and whose maker had provided floppies for
their application. An application on a 1.4 meg floppy being copied onto a 650 meg CD is
like keeping your nail clippers in a trash dumpster!
I don't have 15 or 20 nail clippers, I have one. It doesn't fit into a
convenient category, so even if I labeled the dumpster "personal care
products" or anything else, what ELSE would I keep in it? Categorization
and locating the item later becomes a real problem. A DVD is going to be
worse in that regard.
A single floppy with ID is useful, even tho' it is subject to a lot of
potential problems.
I know that's an oversimplification, but you see what I'm getting at.
Absolutely - I actually really like the analogy - but of late, I must admit, I've been getting into the habit of using CD's rather than floppies for a few reasons
- cost per megabyte - not even worth detailing
- data reliability (I know if I drop a CD in a case into my bag, it'll still be readable by the time I get to uni (laugh ye not, it's happened with a brand new verbatim disk out of the box...)
- not being limited by 1.4 meg (especially considering I mostly use this G3 for graphics and audio...of course, to transport a whole pro tools session, sometimes you need multiple discs =] )
Generally, though, I try not to use disks as much as possible - I've got the beige, a 7100 and a classic all phone-netted together, with a PC hanging off the G3 as well - so disks tend not to be used here as much as possible. Then again, I'm an incurable nerd. Go figure.
Just adding my $A0.02 (although I think the exchange rate is waning)
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