It's (still) a floppy world...DAMN-IT
Well, I am sort of glad that i didn't make the Mac switch over the summer, I still plan to but I just got home from my first day of college classes and I discovered that most papers are to be turned in and transported from class<->home on 3.25 inch floppies, when I asked my Eng. comp teacher if I could do work with a thumb drive, she said "no, we all use floppies".
My CIS teacher let us in on a secret, the school has locked the usb ports so thumb drives are useless.
Question: why are these people in the dark ages? why is there no alternative to floppies that has more stability?
My CIS teacher let us in on a secret, the school has locked the usb ports so thumb drives are useless.
Question: why are these people in the dark ages? why is there no alternative to floppies that has more stability?
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but yes, floppy is darkages! Big time....
I can't remember the last time I even touched a floppy - maybe three years ago....
Anyway, it's no reason to delay a switch to Mac. You can pick up a USB floppy drive for a few bucks, and it will work fine with PC-formatted floppies.
Originally posted by sparhawk
thumbdrives can contain more, so maybe more is taken then is allowed? Or maybe ppl start installing software...
I can do mutch more damage with access to a net connection than whatever data can be stoed away on a floppy...
Originally posted by jwri004
Did you also ask where the ink-wells were in the lecture theatres?
No, as we entered the cave, we were given a hammer and chisel, next year they are upgrading to slate and calcium sticks, if we are lucky, we will get the name brand, Chalk(tm) and the transportation engineers are working on a replacements for the cubes that turn to turn the buggies, they call it codename ?wheel?.
"Ha ha! Fooled all you bozos."
Aren't you?
Please......
Originally posted by a_greer
Question: why are these people in the dark ages? why is there no alternative to floppies that has more stability?
Many state schools use floppies. Some departments, such as engineering, don't have the budget or see the need to upgrade to the newest computers. I live in the Bay Area and in the schools I've attended, sometimes the only alternatives for transferring files are floppies or e-mail. This includes Cañada College, San Francisco State University, and UC Berkeley.
I have had no problems using iBooks because USB floppy drives are inexpensive and work well.
Me, I'm planning on setting up a Subversion server for student projects... they have auto-backup as they go, and I have timestamps. Not to mention who checked in what/when for group projects...
They upgraded all the computer labs again... Dell P4 3.0 ghz with 1 gb of ram, Who the hell needs that much power for a general computer lab, where people only do word processing and web surfing? I can understand for computer classes, but for a general lab? I'm glad they have imacs though, I wouldn't touch those things with a 10 foot pole, besides, everyone is always crowding over them, the apple section is sparse, some 20 computers and only about 5 users. Let's see what have, dells with 3 ghz and 1 gb of ram, and imac G4's at 800 mhz and 256 mb of ram... We can see where they are spending more money on, can't we? And they haven't even had their software updated (mac osx wise)...
(and yes this is a nasty PC question)
Although my 7500 at the time did have a floppy drive. . . . Now it has a MO drive mounted in the floppy position.
Sony makes those Floppy->memory stick adapters for old 3.5" Mavicas. Wonder if those could work in computers.
However, I did meet a vendor who still was carrying a stack of floppies to hand out info with rather than handing out CDs.
I haven't used a floppy for actually transferring data from computer to computer in... um... six years?
I don't think I've *touched* one, literally, for three.
No, wait... there were those 5.25" ones I hauled out to play with on the \\\\gs...
I been to several public colleges in the Washington State and none of them required students to use floppy disks. I see more and more students use those USB flash drive in the lab.
It's kind of dumb to lock those USB ports in the computer labs. May be for security issue?
I would talk to the student body or the IT department for this issue. Floppy drive is obsolete! Apple put them away since the original iMac in 1998 and DELL followed in 2003/4 (?)