I use floppies all the time at work. Scores of boot disks, and DOS utilities. Even a linux bootdisk to thwart silly users when they change NT passwd's. I have plenty of usage for floppy disks. "Why not put those on CD?" Well I guess we could but it seems to me to be a total waste of time to burn a CD everytime I need a utility. I have a nice floppy imaging program with all my disk images so in case someone needs a copy of a diskette or if one of mine conk out, it's there in a minute. I really haven't had many diskettes go dead on me. Of course I do take care of mine. They sure do take more abuse than a CD, though, except for maybe being near a magnet (but who's that silly?). Put a nice scratch on a CD, and wooo.. bye-bye data.
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I use floppies all the time at work. Scores of boot disks, and DOS utilities. Even a linux bootdisk to thwart silly users when they change NT passwd's. I have plenty of usage for floppy disks. "Why not put those on CD?" Well I guess we could but it seems to me to be a total waste of time to burn a CD everytime I need a utility. I have a nice floppy imaging program with all my disk images so in case someone needs a copy of a diskette or if one of mine conk out, it's there in a minute. I really haven't had many diskettes go dead on me. Of course I do take care of mine. They sure do take more abuse than a CD, though, except for maybe being near a magnet (but who's that silly?). Put a nice scratch on a CD, and wooo.. bye-bye data.