Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Jimbo
Not trying to sound harsh or rude or anything, but who actually uses floppy drives anymore. I've never used a floppy disk in my life, 1) cos they're too small for anything and 2) my computer doesnt even have a floppy drive

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I use a floppy disk drive. I have a USB one and an internal one.

1) They are not too small for anything. A standard IBM-PC BIOS boot sector is 512-bytes. Of course, this is generally used as a boot loader, however, can come in very handy in rescue situations.

They may be slow, but they're supported on generally all computers (even if your PC doesn't have a floppy drive, its probably because the creators went on the cheap and skimped £5 for the drive and cables - your motherboard will still likely have the connectors) and as I say, very useful.

Of course they're also slow and prone to corruption, but hey.

@vaccination: You could be correct. From the grammar I wasn't sure if "disk" was meant, or "disks". If disk was indeed the case, then the drive could well be buggered.