Any One Uses Floppy Drive

[youllbelost]

Hi,
Just a thought.

How many of you use a Floppy drive now?
If yes, what use it is of?
I dont have a floppy drive since 2002.

 

[alphanumeric]

I have a USB floppy drive. Can't say as I use it much. I have a couple of floppies with hard drive diagnostics, memtest, that kind of stuff. I keep everything on USB thumbdrives now.

 

[youllbelost]

I dont even use the Cd-ROM much, just for MoBo and other hardware drivers that they provide.
[That too for the first time cuz they have been updated]

 

[alphanumeric]

I have a DVD-Rom drive installed, only ever use it to play games that require the disk be in the drive to play. I install windows 7 from a thumbdrive, all my drivers are on another one, programs on another one etc. I can set my whole system up from a blank hard drive without ever touching optical media. My documents, music, etc is backed up to an external USB hard drive.

 

[youllbelost]

I have a DVD-Rom drive installed, only ever use it to play games that require the disk be in the drive to play. I install windows 7 from a thumbdrive, all my drivers are on another one, programs on another one etc. I can set my whole system up from a blank hard drive without ever touching optical media. My documents, music, etc is backed up to an external USB hard drive.

Ditto

 

[agent47er]

i do still use usb drive... althoug rarely....
i still have some old drive that comtains some of my favorate dos games like dave and bio menace...

even though i can virtually max ut any **** game... still love to play the classics..... just for fun..

 

[Laryl]

I just got a new pc.. for the first time without a floppy drive. I can sever the ties with a floppy drive now, but I have a stack of floppies I had to transfer photos off of first

 

[strollin]

I still use floppies (5.25 and 3.5) because I have a collection of vintage computers and a few of them are floppy only, no HDD, no CDROM and no USB support. I also have a USB floppy drive that I use on my "modern" machines which allows me to download software from the web and have a way to copy it to my old machines.

 

[youllbelost]

I still use floppies (5.25 and 3.5) because I have a collection of vintage computers and a few of them are floppy only, no HDD, no CDROM and no USB support. I also have a USB floppy drive that I use on my "modern" machines which allows me to download software from the web and have a way to copy it to my old machines.

:shock::shock::shock:
This is awesome..
can you upload some pics of those machines love to see them..

 

[Layback Bear]

I still have a floppy drive hard wired along with cd, dvd, usb. I keep a floppy drive because it has never failed me when needed.

 

[strollin]

I still use floppies (5.25 and 3.5) because I have a collection of vintage computers and a few of them are floppy only, no HDD, no CDROM and no USB support. I also have a USB floppy drive that I use on my "modern" machines which allows me to download software from the web and have a way to copy it to my old machines.

:shock::shock::shock:
This is awesome..
can you upload some pics of those machines love to see them..

Here's a few of my "floppy only" machines:

IBM PC 5150


IBM 5140 Covertible


IBM 5155 Portable


Compaq Portable


Tandy TRS-80 Model 1

 

[youllbelost]

Super Awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DocBrown]

Very nice collection strollin

 

[youllbelost]

Do you own one of those..............???????????

 

[Carl Lawrence]

I do not use floppies anymore.

 

[Manigue]

Floppy, Floppy, Floppy, Floppy,????

Oh yea, now I remember!

Had one back in the 20th century.

Don't remember what ever happened to it.

I do remember punching a hole on the SS 720K to use them as DS 1.44 Mb. You know, student on a low budget.

 

[youllbelost]

Now you will remember.

 

[strollin]

Do you own one of those..............???????????

I own at least one of each of the machines I posted a picture of. The pictures aren't of my actual machines though, just photos I grabbed off the web.

The IBM machines and the Compaq are all 8088 CPU based, the Tandy is Z80 based.

Doc - That's not my entire collection, just the ones that are "floppy only".

 

[strollin]

Now you will remember.

I don't own any machines that use the 8" floppies but one of my earliest tech jobs was to test and do head alignment on Shugart SA800 8" floppy drives.

 

[1Bowtie]

Still have a floppy drive, can't remember the last time i used it