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 PC World announces the end of the floppy disk, no more FLOPPY please

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skylinegtr34rule4life
post Dec 26 2007, 04:38 PM

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QUOTE(St.Daring @ Dec 17 2007, 11:09 AM)
Just another PC evolution, in 10 years time, CD probably will extinct too...
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nope! DVD will extinct in 10 years time. laugh.gif CD is 5 years time. tongue.gif

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mgxbox
post Dec 26 2007, 04:58 PM

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So long floppy drive, sayonara.
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post Dec 26 2007, 06:30 PM

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When i was a kid, the floppy drive are as big as DVDROM (minus the thickness) laugh.gif

Glad it is gone now, not gonna miss it. tongue.gif
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post Dec 26 2007, 07:04 PM

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had a bad experience with floppy disc, storage size is terribly small and inconvenient to bring a square box around,even my rig now also no more floppy drive already, bye bye old floppy disc ........ happy.gif
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post Dec 26 2007, 08:22 PM

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floopy drive is still needed to load raid driver when installing windows xp
Doltan
post Dec 26 2007, 10:22 PM

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I still need to use floppy disc to download data off some old hardware in the office, so it won't disappear for the time being for me.
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post Dec 26 2007, 11:20 PM

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during secondary school time, me and my friends used to buy sharewares games in the form of floppy disc!!

I remember my DoomII came in 3 disk packages.

Some other games i remember:
Dune - 5 disks
Wolfenstein 3D - 2 disks ?
Descent - 1 disk!....
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post Dec 27 2007, 01:17 AM

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good things come and goes, so do floppy

sayonara!

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