Good morning, Am Mittwoch 25 November 2009 21:54:10 schrieb Mike McCarty: > Simon Geard wrote: > >[...], and I've honestly no idea where I could buy a new floppy disk > > these days...
http://www.floppydisk.com/ SCNR :) > Well, you don't use my machines, and on my machines, my rules > hold. When I bought a machine a few years ago, one of the first > things I did was put a floppy drive on it. > [...] > I have several machines I use which don't even HAVE USB interfaces, > nor a BIOS which could recognize them. I also own a rather old machine that serves as subversion repo and file server that can't boot from USB. To get a little more offtopic here, there are fears among some scientists that our modern age will end up as one of the worst documented ever. You can't read some old data disks if you don't have a respective device anymore, and there's a lot of knowledge available in the online world which is not conserved in printed form. Some documents printed on supermarket terminals fade away even faster than you need to keep them for warranty, there are even recommendations to take a photocopy for legal reasons (this might be a special thing due to German bureaucracy, though). IMHO the debade wether having a floppy drive or not are not only offtopic, but even completely meaningless. As long as you compile the driver for FDD controllers into the kernel... ;) Cheers, Jan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
