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Death to the 3.5" Floppy?

Posted by michael on from the ad-te-omnis-caro-veniet dept.

BawbBitchen writes "PC World in NZ is running this story about PC makers struggling to try to kill the floppy as a standard PC part. Gateway has started to take $10 off the price of a PC if you order the PC without the floppy. Hum, well my Mac does not have a floppy and I do not miss it & my Linux Server has one that I have never used. Does anyone out there still use their floppy?"

2 of 1,126 comments (clear)

  1. Re:BOOT DISK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why not use a boot CD?

    rtfc

    "something about autoboot and my scsi CD-ROM"

  2. Re: 3.5" - NOT Floppy by Ratbert42 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A trainer at work calls them stiffies.