9th April 2007, 5:22 PM
Well even after all this time, they are still needed for a lot of things, mostly related to backwards compatibility and initial system setup. Outside of that, I tend to use my old laptop hard drive in a USB enclosure for all my file transfers.
As just an example, if you have some totally wasted system and the BIOS does not support loading from a CD-ROM, you are pretty much forced to use a floppy drive. I myself keep both a USB floppy drive and an old fasioned one around just for such situations.
They really are a must if you regularly find yourself fixing outdated machines.
As just an example, if you have some totally wasted system and the BIOS does not support loading from a CD-ROM, you are pretty much forced to use a floppy drive. I myself keep both a USB floppy drive and an old fasioned one around just for such situations.
They really are a must if you regularly find yourself fixing outdated machines.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)