Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 11-10-2011 22:54, Jim Michaels schreef: > the world is going to usb floppies. > the best usb floppy is nippon labs. only it can actually format. Good to know. If only I could find floppies somewhere, they're neither made nor sold anymore I think. When is formatting actually needed? I'm not s

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-12 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Good to know. If only I could find floppies somewhere, they're neither > made nor sold anymore I think. go to www.amazon.com /www.amazon.de and search for 'diskette' Tom -- All the data continuously generated in your I

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 12-10-2011 19:38, Tom Ehlert schreef: >> Good to know. If only I could find floppies somewhere, they're neither >> made nor sold anymore I think. > go to www.amazon.com /www.amazon.de and search for 'diskette' Good to know, no idea about quality though (as far as you can say that about floppie

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-12 Thread Decheng Fan
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 12-10-2011 19:38, Tom Ehlert schreef: > >> Good to know. If only I could find floppies somewhere, they're neither > >> made nor sold anymore I think. > > go to www.amazon.com /www.amazon.de and search for 'diskette' > > Good to know, no id

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Decheng Fan wrote: > > Agree. Also almost never see floppies sold in stationery stores, Carrefour > since around 2009 in Shanghai. This isn't that big of a surprise. Ever since Vista didn't need 'em anymore for loading drivers (SATA?), plus being able to boot