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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?"

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  1. get a Mac!! by mAIsE · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeah i plug mine into my iBook whenever i want to read old disks.

    Maybe PC's can make the evolution the same ways Macs did in 97. Just use an external USB drive when needed.

  2. Re: 3.5" - NOT Floppy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey, check out this cartoon of a funny Negro.

  3. Re:CD-RW too hard to use by rnelsonee · · Score: 0, Troll
    Rant mode on:

    Amen, brother. Using 3rd party programs to do something as simple as moving a file is ridiculous. It's been what, almost 20 years since the click-and-drag has been around? And you're telling me that the newest major OS (XP) doesn't support click-and-drag to the most common form of file-storing media?

    For this reason, I've never owned a CD-RW, and hopefully never will. I'm just going to wait it out for The Next Big Thing (unless DVD writers are the same, in which case I'm waiting for The Next Big Thing After That).

    And Zip drives are crap, too. I'm not going to let one company dictate how much my removable writable media disks are going to cost.