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

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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:

> >>> Sellam Ismail,
> >>>
> >>> I still use them [floppy's] all the time.  It's still the quickest and
> >>> easiest way to transfer files (that can fit on them of course).
> >>>
> >>> I use CD-R for backups and transferring very large files.
>
> Compared to a USB memory stick? Unless I want to keep or do repeated
> transafers over time, I have lamost stopped using CD-R's completely.

I don't invest in any of that fancy new-fangled equipment.  I use whatever
I already have or what's given to me.  That usually means stuff that's 3-7
generations behind whatever is current today.  I generally use hardware
until it wears out completely.  That means I have lots of older computers
around in use all the time (some of it even on topic here).  Either I'm
very cheap or I believe in using something until it can't be reasonably
used anymore (and then I try to stretch it out some more ;)

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