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joeorc on 26 April 2010
agardini51 said:
Wow. It's about time. With flash storage getting cheaper and most computers being built these days without floppy drives it only makes sense. I would much rather have my 8GB flash drive than a 1.44 MB floppy.

yea, it is a suprise it's lasted this long, though that reg. 1.44 MB floppies can be made to store more than 1.44 MB's

A free program which can be used to expand the capacity of disks is FDFORMAT. It is an older program which works in Windows or DOS 3.2 (and newer versions). It is available for download on a few websites, sometimes within a file called "msoft17f.zip".

Using the batch (.BAT) file included with it in the above-mentioned zip file, it formats a regular 1.44MB 3.5" disk to 1.71MB, an almost 20% increase. Both in DOS 6.22 and Windows XP (after formatting it in DOS), I was able to fully utilize the disk space and access the files on it.

if you had any of the 720k disc's you could increase it's capacity to 830k

 



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twesterm on 26 April 2010
TWRoO said:
twesterm said:
TWRoO said:
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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.

lol sarcasm fail for me today!



 

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

many electrical/system engineers would still use them with slightly older equipment. Almost all our oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers can write data to a floppy disc. We also have networked versions so we don't use floppys, but I can see why they would still be in use.




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huaxiong90 on 26 April 2010
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But but...how will I play my Number Munchers! And Oregon Trail! And X-Wing?!

Damn you Sony!

Oh my god, dude, you just brought back loads of memories. They had those 3 games in school back in the day. I used to love playing Number Munchers and Oregon Trail.



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ShadowSnake on 26 April 2010

noesss. this brings me back to my first exposure to computers, storing data and computer games.

in fact my dad still uses them to backup some stuff lol. i should pass on the terrible news



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

many electrical/system engineers would still use them with slightly older equipment. Almost all our oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers can write data to a floppy disc. We also have networked versions so we don't use floppys, but I can see why they would still be in use.

or even some industrial robot's...



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

many electrical/system engineers would still use them with slightly older equipment. Almost all our oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers can write data to a floppy disc. We also have networked versions so we don't use floppys, but I can see why they would still be in use.

All the way until I think 2-3 years ago, my mom still had to use Floppy Disks and ancient word processing systems from around 1990 all based around the legal system.  They didn't even support Microsoft Word and were still using a DOS interface.  It wasn't until very recently they switched over to Microsoft Word and Windows.



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Johann on 26 April 2010

I won't miss them but my dad will. He uses it for work, believe it or not.



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

many electrical/system engineers would still use them with slightly older equipment. Almost all our oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers can write data to a floppy disc. We also have networked versions so we don't use floppys, but I can see why they would still be in use.

All the way until I think 2-3 years ago, my mom still had to use Floppy Disks and ancient word processing systems from around 1990 all based around the legal system.  They didn't even support Microsoft Word and were still using a DOS interface.  It wasn't until very recently they switched over to Microsoft Word and Windows.

I know many companies use old and outdated systems and they just shouldn't be.  I did IT for a company years and years ago and they used old outdated machines, OS, hardware, ect and it just made more work for everybody. 

There's saving money and there's being stubborn.  At some point you just have to upgrade.



 

NiKKoM on 26 April 2010

Damn... now I have to transfer all my old porn from



 

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