Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

[chris]

>Gee, neither of the last two new computers that I purchased had 
>floppy drives (and one of those is about 5 years old now).  I'd say 
>this is old news (and the PC world finally catching up with the rest 
>of us).  I can't even remember the last time I used a floppy drive.

Heck the last two PC's I bought not only didn't have floppy drives, but 
completely lacked floppy controllers, so I couldn't add one if I even 
wanted to.

They also lacked on board Serial and Parallel. Everything was expected to 
be done via USB.

-chris
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