Floppy drive
 

I was wondering when was the last time anyone used his/her floppy drive? My current PC has one that I salvaged from 3 or 4 upgrades ago. I don't think I've used it for about 3 or more years now. On my most recent upgrade, MB, CPU, RAM, I just left it unplugged. I doubt I'll need to use it anytime soon or at all.

Anyone out there still finds it useful?

I can't really imagine anyone using them anymore, especially now that USB drives are so cheap. My current PC has no floppy, and I don't think I used the drive in my last one since 2001 or thereabouts.

Somewhere around '99 I think. When the iMac was introduced in mid/late '98 I understood the idea of no more floppies and proceeded to move data that I still used from floppies to CD (luckily I had a CD burner at work at the time... way expensive back in the day). When my iMac arrived in Feb. '99 I never looked back.

I had to update the BIOS a few months ago, so that went on a floppy.

I use mostly my 256MB thumbdrive, crossover cable if the files are large. Current MB bios can be updated right under Windows. Perhaps floppies will finally phase out soon.

I can't remember the last time I used my floppy drive..

However, that didn't stop me from hooking one up in my lastest. I just know that once I decide to go 'floppy-less,' I'm going to need it for something.

I used one last week for a BIOS upgrade. That seems to be the only use for them now a days.

I used mine a few weeks ago to ghost a HD. Maybe I should go floppyless but I'm scared of the change I just know I'll run into software that won't work without it.

Used one today for a BIOS update. That's the only thing I've used it for in forever...

I used a floppy to boot up the NetBSD installer because an old BIOS wouldn't recognize my CD-R for some reason. Floppies are still useful for various boot-type disks, especially for older machines. For everything else, I use UBCD.

I took mine out of my tower a year or two ago to make room for two 60 gig hard drives... i haven't even needed it with webspace and ftp locations.

I don't use it except for the occassional sneakernet application from desktop to old ass laptop with Win3.1 or Win95 and no PCMCIA cardbus slots or USB.

I use it for backup of a few small data files.
Delphi progs and Finale. Also telephone numbers, passwords & URLs
like Yahoo Briefcase. It can keep sensitive data off the machine until I need it.
But really it's for backup.

Also use it to transfer small utils I want to use on another machine that is here for a short time - like to be fixed - if no network is posible.

Yes, but I work at an office that deals with people still using Windows 98...flash drives don't work on Win98 without loading drivers (via floppy) first.... :hmm:

but it's still useful to have....the laptop Im getting doesn't come with one, but I'll probably buy a USB drive for it.