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Does your PC has a floppy drive?

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#101 Sir VG

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Posted 01 October 2008 - 01:16 PM

I stopped using floppies since I am getting away from the only thing I needed them for, driver installation while doing Windows installs (I had an IDE extension card for having 4 HDs in my computer). I do have a USB one around just in case it's needed, but I pretty much USB hard drives, pen drives, and flash cards are the way to go now. More storage space, faster media, and cheaper/(MB/GB).
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Posted 02 October 2008 - 04:39 AM

Ohhh. CoCo, commie, or what?

Its a CoCo I tried to see if it worked and it turns out it made my dad mad one day and he ended up ripping it out of the TV, I was thinking about just finding vintage parts and fixing it.
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Posted 02 October 2008 - 06:37 AM

I've got two 3.5" floppy drives and a 5.25" floppy drive laying around in a box of old spare parts behind me. I don't need floppies for drivers, or anything with my current hardware, so I haven't bothered digging them out and using them. It isn't worth it, either, since I have a multi-port in the 3.5" external bay that has USB for my thumb drive in case of emergency.
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Posted 02 October 2008 - 11:12 AM

Its a CoCo I tried to see if it worked and it turns out it made my dad mad one day and he ended up ripping it out of the TV, I was thinking about just finding vintage parts and fixing it.

First guess is a broken solder joint on the video connector.
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Posted 08 October 2008 - 01:28 AM

I just built a pc and didn't add one in. I don't see a reason why I would need one.
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Posted 22 October 2008 - 06:59 AM

My PC shipped with Vista, so I don't have one.
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Posted 22 October 2008 - 09:33 AM

Nope... not anymore. But my old com has one.
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Posted 25 October 2008 - 05:44 PM

We have 5 computers. 3 Laptops which have slide in/out ports, so if we bought the floppy drive ya it could have one. The 2 desktops both have them built in though.Floppys are so funny now, 5.8mg of storage on average, thats about 2 songs.
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Posted 31 October 2008 - 12:27 AM

We have 5 computers. 3 Laptops which have slide in/out ports, so if we bought the floppy drive ya it could have one. The 2 desktops both have them built in though.Floppys are so funny now, 5.8mg of storage on average, thats about 2 songs.

Dude, either you are smoking something SERIOUSLY strong or you had some tricked out custom gear. The average 3.5" floppy drive had a capacity of 1.44 megabytes. Older ones only supported 720K and there were ones that supported 2.88 meg. If it was a good floppy and you had special software sometime you could format a 1.44 floppy above the rated capacity but they tended to be unstable if you did that. There were also LS-120 drives that could read normal floppies but a LS-120 disk wouldn't work in a normal drive.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LS-120
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Posted 02 November 2008 - 01:59 AM

We still have one but I'm the only one who uses it rarely.
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Posted 02 November 2008 - 03:41 PM

Dude, either you are smoking something SERIOUSLY strong or you had some tricked out custom gear. The average 3.5" floppy drive had a capacity of 1.44 megabytes. Older ones only supported 720K and there were ones that supported 2.88 meg. If it was a good floppy and you had special software sometime you could format a 1.44 floppy above the rated capacity but they tended to be unstable if you did that. There were also LS-120 drives that could read normal floppies but a LS-120 disk wouldn't work in a normal drive.

Zip disks do better than that though. But again, they store a lot more than just 5.8 MB... Whatever, they can't beat the optical storage media of today, obviously XD

Edited by Kichiku Senshi Rance, 02 November 2008 - 03:41 PM.

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Posted 10 November 2008 - 08:36 PM

The computer I work with has a floppy drive. Even though I have a working floppy drive I hardly use it.Most of the time I just use a usb.

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Posted 13 November 2008 - 03:11 PM

LOL floppy drives i havn't seen those in a while
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Posted 14 November 2008 - 10:42 AM

My laptop: NoDesktop: yes a 3.5 in flopy
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Posted 14 November 2008 - 05:16 PM

yeah and i still use them.
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Posted 27 November 2008 - 12:51 PM

Yes but its never been used :br:
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Posted 28 November 2008 - 06:35 PM

No. I've got a laptop now so no. :]
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Posted 30 November 2008 - 05:02 AM

NOPE! Proud of it too, old stuff....LOL
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Posted 30 November 2008 - 05:44 AM

Windows Vista & floppy disks are not compatible.
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Posted 30 November 2008 - 09:31 AM

Windows Vista & floppy disks are not compatible.

Not true. My other system running Windows Vista Ultimate has an internal floppy drive and it works more than fine.As for my current system, unfortunately, there isn't such a drive. They're still quite useful to create bootable disks for old operating systems and such.
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Posted 30 November 2008 - 09:45 AM

omg a floppy drive mine doesn't but the ones at my school still do
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Posted 30 November 2008 - 07:26 PM

I don't have a floppy drive anymore XD
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Posted 30 November 2008 - 07:29 PM

hell yeah if my pc has still got a floppy drive , it's a pentium III , with xp service pack 2 XD nice aint it XD but it works perfectly.
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Posted 03 December 2008 - 05:22 PM

wow, your computer must be ancient if it has a floppy drive. I haven't seen a floppy disk in years. oh, also, no, i do not have a floppy drive <3
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Posted 04 December 2008 - 01:26 AM

My newest PC doesn't have a floppy drive and I don't miss it at all. It's really useless now because of the pen drives.
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