Floppies

[eliquant]

Was in my local Tesco at the weekend and whilst in the electrical section noticed they had a shelf with boxes of floppy disks on clearance for about £2.30'ish.

I think someone should tell them the floppy disk is dead and that they would be better off sticking them in the bin. Or maybe the credit crunch is affecting them more than they are admitting - Tesco, every little helps!

The floppy disk is NOT dead, I needed one to put on some RAID disk drivers so that my Windows XP recovery CD could actually 'see' my RAID C:\ partition.

I got so spooked by being forced to use a floppy disk I even bought a Sony USB floppy disk drive just in case !

[bellymonster]

Reminds me of the time one of my colleagues was installing a new 10MB hard disk into a unix system. It was back in the eighties and it was the size of a dustbin lid.

He said "In my lifetime we will never fill that disk". Six months later he was fitting a second.

[NotAllThere]

Are we talking 5¼ or 3½ inch here?

I remember having an 8". Doesn't hold much though.

[zara_backdog]

For £40 there had better be some very good "premium" content on those tapes.

Sorry - Blank- still in wrapper

Very popular with Russians

[PRC1964]

Maybe they will become 'collectors items'?
Mr ZB is selling certain casette tapes for about 40 quid each

For £40 there had better be some very good "premium" content on those tapes.

[zara_backdog]

Are we talking 5¼ or 3½ inch here?

size doesn't matter

Does if your trying to fit a 5¼ floppy into a 3½ inch drive.

[Andy2]

Are we talking 5¼ or 3½ inch here?

size doesn't matter

[DimPrawn]

I came back from Tesco's with a stiffie.

HTH

[zara_backdog]

Maybe they will become 'collectors items'?
Mr ZB is selling certain casette tapes for about 40 quid each

[BrianSnail]

Are we talking 5¼ or 3½ inch here?

[Ravello]

floppy disks are dead??

[supernintendoChalmers]

Was in my local Tesco at the weekend and whilst in the electrical section noticed they had a shelf with boxes of floppy disks on clearance for about £2.30'ish.

I think someone should tell them the floppy disk is dead and that they would be better off sticking them in the bin. Or maybe the credit crunch is affecting them more than they are admitting - Tesco, every little helps!

I needed some recently to load some SATA drivers during a Vista install, so they can still be useful/necessary.

[bogeyman]

Sort of thing my wife would buy, knowing they were utterly useless: "but were a bargain!"

[Clippy]

Was in my local Tesco at the weekend and whilst in the electrical section noticed they had a shelf with boxes of floppy disks on clearance for about £2.30'ish.

I think someone should tell them the floppy disk is dead and that they would be better off sticking them in the bin. Or maybe the credit crunch is affecting them more than they are admitting - Tesco, every little helps!