Haha I bought my 40x CD burner in 2002 and it cost me RM250.. So expensive.. At that time floppy disc still famous and tumbdrive also expensive, even 128mb will cost you rm100.. Nowadays I prefer removable USB storage like portable harddisc, cheaper and more convenience, bigger capacity..

Diskette?? For 6megapixel camera image will need around 2mb of space for 1 image right? Diskette only have 1.44mb or 1.30mb...

tat software can run on win98 too?

this phasing out won't sound good for Linux users

Traditionally, updating the OS to support certain peripherals in case the kernel is not up to date will require a linux driver disk.



This post has been edited by cre8tif: Feb 5 2007, 12:38 PM

end ?? u wish that the skools and uni's in msia will use CD instead of floppy le.r..

That will only happen after 10 years.They'll still be using floppy till then.

or unless each pc in school have cd burner.. lol
floppy still the main choice in school then..

-adios-

LOL,i never use my floppy since i brought my pc last 2 years!
and i still have 3 box of floppy NEW!
but i think no more useable.
my friend disable the floppy and taken it out!
i think i will do so soon.

that's just based on SPACE alone.

you can't compare diskettes and memory mediums just like that.

if someone asks you to hand him / her a document - what's the easiest way? Floppy it is. i doubt you'll want to hand someone your USB Drive.

soon, pendrive will be as cheap as a piece of diskette....so 1 person may probably have more than 1 pendrive even a 2gb now costs rm69....whatabout in 3 years time....rm5? 2 years ago it costed a few hundreds

speaking of floppies, have any1 of u remember the good ol` big and thin floppy disk before the 1.44?, my 1st comp has it

and floppy disks are almost a yesterday thing, computer shops rarely sell them anymore

my friend asked me to complete some of our group assignment..
she gave me a diskette but..

damn it ..my pc has no floppy drive
i guess i hav to find someone who has a floppy and copy them into my kingston USB drive..

o/t: ouch! this karipap is way too hot today

most shops still selling the fdd. RM25. they should lower the price.

Heheh... I stopped using floppies in 2000!

None of my PCs had a floppy drive since that year. Used 100MB and later 250MB Zip drives instead. Now using thumbdrives, SD & CF cards and CD-RWs for light storage; DVD-RWs or external HDs for heavier storage needs.

Installed FDD in year 2003 into my cpu, never touch it before. What the heck. No one even mention FDD into their "my rig" siggies. LoL..

yeah, that's right

some one please help me, i reallly need help.. i want to install xp in my lappies.. cant, i need usb floopy disk.. it is to install sata driver.. im using vaio fz 15g.. any suggestion?

This post has been edited by durfzstonez: Dec 16 2007, 05:48 PM

cant u put the sata driver into a usb thumbdrive or CD?


am_eniey : you bump this up for a thread almost dead for a year?

This post has been edited by SpikeTwo: Dec 16 2007, 05:52 PM

Borrow someone else USB floopy disk drive and boot the diskette from it. I think that the only way to do it.

it's about time!

The technology is so obsolete. Those floppy disks cant even last longer than a year!! Any data stored in the disk is subjected to data lost if the disk is not handle with great care! Better don't store all the important files, especially your research and uni assignments!!!

Hope that casing manufacturers will stop making PC cases with floppies drive bay too! it's ugly and make the casing less appealing!

Sooner or later, there will be no more PC casing with floppy drive bay. It will be the Blu-ray & HD-DVD's world.