Good bye then, although my school still using it to backup assignment.

I haven't use any floppies on my system since 2003. Only plug it in to flash my gfx card or mobo BIOS, then remove it, save weight and space

bubbye floppy... my 2 rigs since 2005 dont hav floopy.. oni my bittorent p III hav floopy...

Meh, we don't use them, but some oldies from the floppy era cannot live without them. I remember my sis have to find a floppy drive just because her lawyer demands her letter to be in a floppy.....

it's pretty common. it's still the cheaper medium to use for exchanging files.

1 floppy is RM 2 or less, drive is RM 25.

CDs are cheap but you need a burner, heck you need to teach people how to use those software to burn. so it involves learning, humans hate learning. so yeah, floppy is here to stay for a while, just like how cassettes still exist today.

me? i don't use floppies. i've never had floppy disks on my PC for a few years now. all files exchanged via USB / CD / Internet.

even my dad recently juz bought a 1GB kingston thumbdrive.

geez, atlast. i've been telling for years about the bad effects of floppy, even bought him a 128MB thumbdrive 3 years ago for rm90, but he still reluctant to use it

i guess he finally has been enlightened.

I don't see any alternative to installing RAID drivers without using floppy during WinXP setup (the whole F6 thing).

still got 10 piece blank in my drawer..soon should frame it up n hang on wall

it's kinda fun to tear them apart and take out the black discs

sure i will miss floppy drive.. i used it alot last me when in college.i think most of the office rite now still using floppy to keep their works.

the floppy is here to stay for RAID and BIOS setup.

hehehee
same here, during my study time, there is no pendrive
only the 1.44" floppy avail to store data
i still remember when i was doing some multimedia presentation(using ms powerpoint), it need upto 10pcs of diskets just to save all my job.. what a sweet memory

This post has been edited by gengstapo: Feb 4 2007, 07:26 PM

I also not using floppy since year 2005, but I only take it out from my rig last year as I found out it take up some space and bring 1 cacing in my rig...
If floppy really stop production, I think those manufacturer will soon find their way out to replace the use of floppy...just the matter of time...

well i'll say it still a must for tech support person

now using external USB floppy, only when i install RAID driver... any solution?

Floppy Disk
1960~2007
47years...almost 3X of my age....

a pendrive is equivalent to hundreds of diskettes, so we can save more money and space

i killed my gigabyte 965p-ds3 using @bios update utility (in windows) n gigabyte got to replace a board for me.. so i guess unless i can use cd-rom or usb drive to update otherwise it'll be useless..

Eventually the mobo manufacturer would update their mobo with new bios setting that able other medium to perform RAID installation ...

that's how technology being push forward ever since long time ago..

geh, i remember during the times when CD burners were still hard to buy by typical users, we used to copy MP3s using file splitters and lots and lots and lots of floppy..... lol. 1 song can take 3~6 floppy at the time....
I think newer windows installation DVDs will include the ability to install raids from USB flash drive and/or include it in the DVD if it's widely used