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Dell: No more Floppy Drives

Discussion in 'Technology Forum' started by Boo, Feb 6, 2003.

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  1. Feb 6, 2003 at 12:39 PM #1
    Boo

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  2. Feb 6, 2003 at 12:43 PM #2
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  3. Feb 6, 2003 at 12:45 PM #3
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    sure is
     
  4. Feb 6, 2003 at 1:23 PM #4
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    I like the move... simply because it helps the price... they are still making them optional and that's all that matters... if they'd cut them out totally then yeah that'd be a mistake
     
  5. Feb 6, 2003 at 1:24 PM #5
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    a floppy drive is $10 at most. Thats not what I consider 'helping' the price.
     
  6. Feb 6, 2003 at 1:51 PM #6
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    hmmm... good point and I'm betting Dell gets them even cheaper ata bulk rate
     
  7. Feb 6, 2003 at 1:59 PM #7
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    but thats what Dell charges you.:)
     
  8. Feb 6, 2003 at 2:10 PM #8
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    wouldn't like that. I/we use ours all the time
     
  9. Feb 7, 2003 at 10:27 AM #9
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    Blame the perplexing failure of LS-120 drives (I blame Iomega).

    The standard floppy has been a piece fo useless crap for years. The last 4 machines Ive built havent had them, even though my ex-roommate wanted one in the box I made for him.

    If you can boot off CD and you have a rewritable CD drive, what's the point? Its not like you can fit anything of consequence on a floppy disk.
     
  10. Feb 7, 2003 at 2:11 PM #10
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    I use bootable floppy disks for imaging and disk management. Sure I can't get much of anything on a floppy because of it's capacity, but what I do put on there is of much consequence.
     
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