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Alby_da_Wolf on 26 April 2010
stof said:
Wait, it's not dead then. If Sony owned 70% of the market, there's still whoever was making the other 30%. And for whoever that is, they've probably got a lot of incentive to keep doing it now that they just ballooned to 100% of the market.

And Sony wasn't the best brand anyway. After trying a lot of brand and bulk ones, when I was still using them I settled on Verbatim, the only ones that almost never betrayed me.



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Loud_Hot_White_Box on 26 April 2010

I'm actually surprised that 12 million were sold last year, if the high was 47 million in '02.

Remember the SuperDisk drive?  *Should have* been the successor to floppy, as it used 120mb disks, much faster than a zip drive, and the superdisk drive could also read regular floppies, unlike zip drives.  Zip drives were terrible, like AOL was, but everyone used them in the US at that time.


TWRoO on 26 April 2010
twesterm said:
TWRoO said:
twesterm said:
Wait, why are people still using floppy's in 2010 in the first place?

Blaspheme.... it's a perfectly viable way to store a digital photo.

Oh yes, I love being able to store 3 photos and being able to use it on maybe 2 total computers in any given areas.  Totally more convenient than any USB flash drive that most any computer made within the last five years can use.

Again, I don't really see why they are still being made in the first place, they died long ago.  I guess some people use them to store 3 photos and others use them to update their BiOS but should we really support the people that don't know any better?

A lot of my photos are more than 1MB



superchunk on 26 April 2010

I haven't included a floppy drive on PCs I've built since 2008!

lol. I considered not putting one in my 2002 PC but it was like $10 so I figured why not as a just in case measure. However, I think it got used twice... maybe.



twesterm on 26 April 2010
Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

I'm actually surprised that 12 million were sold last year, if the high was 47 million in '02.

Remember the SuperDisk drive?  *Should have* been the successor to floppy, as it used 120mb disks, much faster than a zip drive, and the superdisk drive could also read regular floppies, unlike zip drives.  Zip drives were terrible, like AOL was, but everyone used them in the US at that time.

Lol I remember Zip drives and I actually had one of the god-awful things.  It only worked like half the time and when it did it was slow as all hell.  I remember when I tried installing a game to one and the nightmare running the game from that was.  XD



 

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twesterm on 26 April 2010
TWRoO said:
twesterm said:
TWRoO said:
twesterm said:
Wait, why are people still using floppy's in 2010 in the first place?

Blaspheme.... it's a perfectly viable way to store a digital photo.

Oh yes, I love being able to store 3 photos and being able to use it on maybe 2 total computers in any given areas.  Totally more convenient than any USB flash drive that most any computer made within the last five years can use.

Again, I don't really see why they are still being made in the first place, they died long ago.  I guess some people use them to store 3 photos and others use them to update their BiOS but should we really support the people that don't know any better?

A lot of my photos are more than 1MB

Ok, so you get 1 photo instead of three.  I thought I was being a little generous saying you'd get three. 



 

NoPantsHoSlappa on 26 April 2010

i haven't used one since 8th grade and that was back in 2000/2001.



haxxiy on 26 April 2010

Only USB drives really killed them it seems.



 

 

 

 

 

NJ5 on 26 April 2010
twesterm said:
TWRoO said:
twesterm said:
Wait, why are people still using floppy's in 2010 in the first place?

Blaspheme.... it's a perfectly viable way to store a digital photo.

Oh yes, I love being able to store 3 photos and being able to use it on maybe 2 total computers in any given areas.  Totally more convenient than any USB flash drive that most any computer made within the last five years can use.

Again, I don't really see why they are still being made in the first place, they died long ago.  I guess some people use them to store 3 photos and others use them to update their BiOS but should we really support the people that don't know any better?

You'd be surprised at how many people and companies are still using Windows 95 or DOS in their everyday life.

 



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TWRoO on 26 April 2010
twesterm said:
TWRoO said:
twesterm said:
TWRoO said:
twesterm said:
Wait, why are people still using floppy's in 2010 in the first place?

Blaspheme.... it's a perfectly viable way to store a digital photo.

Oh yes, I love being able to store 3 photos and being able to use it on maybe 2 total computers in any given areas.  Totally more convenient than any USB flash drive that most any computer made within the last five years can use.

Again, I don't really see why they are still being made in the first place, they died long ago.  I guess some people use them to store 3 photos and others use them to update their BiOS but should we really support the people that don't know any better?

A lot of my photos are more than 1MB

Ok, so you get 1 photo instead of three.  I thought I was being a little generous saying you'd get three. 

It's why I said "a digital photo" instead of some.

Ignoring my sarcasm.... I think my grandparents would probably still be quite amazed if I gave them a floppy disc and said there was a photo on it.