Dell Finall Drops the Floppy... Sorta
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"Nearly five years later..."
"Nearly five years later..."
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since there won't be any floppy anymore...
dis zips if you want. But they are still a viable option. Esp. in the eduaction setting....
Only drawback is that most of them are PC formatted and hence if u wan to copy from a Mac to such a drive, it will take ages.....
Unless of course u format it using a MAc format, then copying from a PC to the drive will take ages...
Sigh. A dilemma <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<strong>now if iOmega was smart...they'd jump on the boat and start telling people to "replace your floppy with a zip!"
since there won't be any floppy anymore...
dis zips if you want. But they are still a viable option. Esp. in the eduaction setting....</strong><hr></blockquote>
Capacity is one reason why floppies are dead, but reliability/durability is another reason.
At this point, the network and optical-media are king, and Iomega will evenetually go bankrupt or become just another external optical drive and HDD maker...not a very glamorous future...
As far as IOmega, it did't help thet their products were/are only slightly more reliable than a floppy.
Or better yet, mebbe we could standardize on ONE flash memory format, something that would be included on all MoBo's and work driverlessly in Windows, MacOS, Linux, whatever...
Or,
build "thumbdrive" functionality into the basic USB2.x or firewire2 specs. I think some thumbdrives are "driverless", but if it were "universal" then we'd instantly have the perfect floppy replacement. It would work with unlimited capacities and on any available port just like a drive.
I guess 12cm discs are plenty small for most uses, especially playing music and films at home. But, with storage densities becoming higher all the time, mebbe the powers that be ought to drop down to 8cm discs when the time for blue laser or flo-discs arrives?
<strong>Well, the truth is that while there should have been some kind of media recording/hardware device to transport data, anything that fit on a floppy would have fit in an e-mail. Even 5 years ago, anyone who had a computer had e-mail.
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How can you email a file to wherever you might go? Let's say I'm going to a meeting in europe and I need to take my powerpoint presentation with me. How do I email it there?