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  • eliquant
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    Originally posted by Clippy View Post
    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 !

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  • bellymonster
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    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.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by dwm009 View Post
    Are we talking 5¼ or 3½ inch here?
    I remember having an 8". Doesn't hold much though.

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  • zara_backdog
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    Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post


    For £40 there had better be some very good "premium" content on those tapes.
    Sorry - Blank- still in wrapper

    Very popular with Russians

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  • PRC1964
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    Originally posted by zara_backdog View Post
    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.

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  • zara_backdog
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    Originally posted by dwm009 View Post
    Are we talking 5¼ or 3½ inch here?
    Originally posted by Andy2 View Post
    size doesn't matter
    Does if your trying to fit a 5¼ floppy into a 3½ inch drive.

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  • Andy2
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    Originally posted by dwm009 View Post
    Are we talking 5¼ or 3½ inch here?
    size doesn't matter

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  • DimPrawn
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    I came back from Tesco's with a stiffie.

    HTH
    Last edited by DimPrawn; 9 February 2009, 15:55.

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

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  • BrianSnail
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    Are we talking 5¼ or 3½ inch here?

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  • Ravello
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    floppy disks are dead??

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  • supernintendoChalmers
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    Originally posted by Clippy View Post
    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.

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

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  • Clippy
    started a topic Floppies

    Floppies

    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!
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