Sony Signals the End of the Floppy
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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I know right! I had this one that I used the shit outta and it was an opaque light green. I had so many projects and stories on that thing. *sigh*Hayate_GT said:
I got a computer in 2003 I think from dell, and it had the option of either a floppy drive, or a 16mb usb stick. I took the stick.
I'll build my floppy disk house come HELL OR HIGH WATER.The_Decoy said:
Anyways, I'm kinda sad to see these go. My bedroom was so full of them for a while (long after I started using flash drives and moved all my data on to them) that I felt like I should donate them to museums. They were nice little tings, but NOTHING Compaired to data storage now. Good night, sweet prince. You'll be missed.
Although floppies have long since been replaced by USB sticks and SD cards for moving data around, one advantage floppies maintained until comparatively recently was that you could always -- always -- boot off them.
While BIOSes have been booting off CD-ROMs for well over a decade, they only got the ability to boot off USB storage media comparatively recently. Prior to that, you had to burn a CD (cumbersome and, if you burned the wrong files, a waste of a CD) or write them to a floppy. This made them ideal for system installation, recovery, and simple tests.
But now booting off USB media is almost universally available in modern machines, removing the floppy's last advantage. I don't plan on pulling out my Teac drive, though...
While BIOSes have been booting off CD-ROMs for well over a decade, they only got the ability to boot off USB storage media comparatively recently. Prior to that, you had to burn a CD (cumbersome and, if you burned the wrong files, a waste of a CD) or write them to a floppy. This made them ideal for system installation, recovery, and simple tests.
But now booting off USB media is almost universally available in modern machines, removing the floppy's last advantage. I don't plan on pulling out my Teac drive, though...
