Modern floppy disk question...

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Eric Smith wrote:

> If all they had to
> do was pick them up off the ground (like a rock), put it in a box, ship
> it across the ocean, to the distributor, to the dealer, and finally to
> me, I'd have expected to have to pay more than $10 for it.

ROFL! No shit -- for $12 I bought a replacement 3.5" floppy. All
in all, it's pretty spectacular; this incredibly precise (though
not precise enough :-) metal plastic and silicon thing.

That's corporate culture for you. 99.9% of the western monied
world rarely uses floppies at all, and even then only occasionally
for the odd legacy floppy. Basically no one gives a shit anymore
about floppies.

There used to be entire magazine articles devoted to them. Today,
many computer owners don't even know what one is.

Floppies suck (as much as I like my 8" Shugart), good riddance.

Let's bring back 1/2" magtape instead! Much cooler! Compare old
sci fi movies; how many use burping floppy drives to impress?
Zilch -- boring! A room full of floor-standing vacuum column tape
drives! Tres f*cking cool!