[itai195]

In light of a recent ZDNet article about Microsoft possibly finally ditching the floppy drive in PCs and all of the whining that erupted, it made me wonder. Do any Mac users actually miss their floppy drives?

[jeffs7364]

Originally posted by itai195:
<STRONG>In light of a recent ZDNet article about Microsoft possibly finally ditching the floppy drive in PCs and all of the whining that erupted, it made me wonder. Do any Mac users actually miss their floppy drives?</STRONG>

No.
It's waste if you ask me...I'm glad it's gone! MUHAHAHAHAHA

[philzilla]

in short, no. the last time i actually used a floppy disc, was to create a system disc for a friend's pc, when i had to format and reinstall Windoze for him, but his system was completely shot. hmm, i think that's 4 times i've had to do that for him now.

there's just no need for one. you can just as easily email 1.44Mb of data these days, or ftp it to a server

remember the 7" floppies that David Lightman used in WarGames? yowsers!

[Sword of Orion]

I miss my floppy drive every time one of my whiny Windows friends wants me to give them a file on a floppy instead of emailing it to them. sheesh.

[PeteWK]

I actually still have them. 2 superdrives and a regular floppy. I use them to receive PC Powerpoint presentations and Word files from other people's computers. But I got my boss one of those Piccolo drives made by Sonnet. He's blown away and I don't have to put my superdrive in my Pismo as much.

PeteWK

[Paul S]

I don't think I ever used my floppy drive the last 2 years I had a machine with one (beige G3). That one sold last fall. I've been floppyless since. No big deal to me. I've had an iMac at work since 11/98. I haven't had a need there either.

[slider]

No, if I can't email it or put it on a server and the only way to transfer something is on a disk, I use a Zip. Floppies are a pain in the a$$ and the sooner their gone the better. I do like those small usb drives, great idea.

[SupahCoolX]

I just wish someone would make a FireWire floppy drive

Seriously, though, I don't miss floppies at all!

[Slayed]

What's a Floppy Drive???


Actually, I remember loading progs off a tape drive for my old Vic20, boy that was hot stuff!

[MacGorilla]

No and I feel weird when someone asks me if I have one, like, why do you need a floppy?

[MadMacs]

[Bruce O'Neal]

at work (windows2000) we have one unit that does press releases and i post them on the website. they REFUSE to e-mail them to me and instead, put each release on a disk and walk it across the office to me. what a waste!!! i have tried showing them how to use our groupwise to attach a message and just send it to (i know they could save it on a network drive, but trust me, if they cannot send a simple attachment, finding a network drive would be nearly impossible).

at home i do not miss it and instead rely on either myBriefcase from yahoo or iDisk to store my data that i need to retrieve away from home.

[SOLIDAge]

my school dosn't even use floppies really, every station has a Zip disk, so if i have to print something out in the lab, i just put it on the Zip 250

[dvd]

zip disk? whats a zip disk? If only everyone had macs so i can transfer with my ipod =] I dont miss the floppy drive but then i use it ocassionally when i had to print someting at my friend's house (leeching his printer) i had to send it to this laptop i got which is a pc.

[macthelastredman]

my friend has to use floppy's for school...she got these sweet see-thru discs..man i wish my mac had a floppy drive...oh wait no i dont...floppy drives are worthless

[l008com]

Floppies were good on beige Macs because you could take them out and put a zip drive in there, yeah it fits, and then you don't have to waste one of your drive bays on your zip. Of coarse that was before zip drives were obsolete

[Mr. Blur]

I "retired" my old beige G3 last summer when I bought a dual 800...at the time I wondered about the floppy drive, but when I really thought about it I couldn't remember the last time I had actually used the thing.

9 months later.....I've never had the need for a floppy and probably never will. Good riddance.

[nitram_again]

i broke down and bought a USB floppy. they are such a pain, and i find myself having to counsel PC users about them (no, you shouldn't have had the only copy of your document on a floppy).

i bought a floppy drive because not everyone has a zip drive or is connected to the net.

[chris v]

Sheesh. CD's are $ 0.59 each. 650 MB versus 1.4 MB? Zips are 100 times as big, and 100 times as fast, and they're obsolete.

I've got a box with about 1000 floppies in it, that you nostalgia freaks are free to come take out of my darkroom, where they've been stashed for 3 years.

We do still have the occasional windows client that brings art in on a floppy, (every couple months) so I keep my trusty Power Center 150 up and running for them, but it's getting lonely, these days.

Slow, unstable, small, expensive ($/MB) and utterly obsolete.

CV

[superlarry]

i haven't *needed* to use a floppy in the last many years, but for before my school district (i was their webmaster) realized the power of e-mailing files or using our giant appleshare server setup to give me updates.
for my own personal use: i haven't needed a floppy drive since i stole a network cable and made it a crossover cable. it got better when i found a 5-port hub at a garage sale for $4. ah, networking.
for helping others:
i have one important floppy. it is a win95 osr2 startup disk with cd-rom drivers. i put fdisk and format on it so i can repartition and wipe drives, then install a new OS from a CD. (win95 osr2 because it can format drives in FAT32) my friends are very grateful for that (stupid windows crowd).

[OldManMac]

Yes, I miss my floppy drive; with every single bullet! But my aim is getting better!

[C.J. Moof]

Every month or 2, someone in the office comes to me with a floppy sent through the mail to them. I just plain can't believe that someone would put a floppy in the mail today... even the saddest of 14.4k modems will get it there faster, and with better error checking.

Please step into the previous decade, folks.

The mailed zips aren't so bad. OK, ya got 75 megs of database to transfer, and a lousy internet connection. I understand that.

But less than a meg and a half? ARRRRGGGG.

[driven]

I pulled the floppy drive out of my Windows XP box a year ago. (I didn't have a long enough cable ... so I figured why bother?)

I have NEVER used the one that's in my laptop.

No loss if you ask me.

[OwlBoy]

Nope. and CD-Rs are cheaper right?

-Owl

[residentEvil]

why yes, i still use floppies

i have a few plus's i use for a virtual fish tank. the floppy for each is a modified boot disk with system 7.5 (yes, 7.5!!! i hacked the shit out of that and got it to fit...finder is really hypercard) that only runs hypercard and its part of the fish tank...

but no, no real use for floppies. oh yeah, partition magic boot disk for formating drives...great pc utility.

[red44dog44]

Not at all. CD-R are the way to go