[PointlessPoll] Floppy drive...

[The Claw]

Ripped it out of my computer >5 years ago when I got a memory stick (cost me $85, 256mb ). They're ugly, obsolete, useless, and use unneccessary resources (if you have them plugged in)

[crusader657]

Mine doesn't. Dell doesn't even have the option for a floppy drive for their computers anymore.

[linppan]

I think the poll speaks for itself... I'm proud to say that I do have a floppy drive! A black one to match my case, I even bought it and shoved it in there because I love those usually grey, black or blue little 1.44mb disks.

How could you be proud of using such a crappy technology which should never have become mainstream. It´s discs are brittle, crappy, small size and get corrupter easily. There were and still are better alternatives.

Apple(just using it as an example since its a market brand computer) were smart enough to to realized that ages ago that floppy wasn´t the future and scraped the floppy. Whilst PC marked branded continued years afterward putting in crappy stupid floppy discs. They havn´t had a proper useful function for years and still dont since there are better alternatives. Yes it fill some function if your using old hardware (music EQ e.i) which require a floppy disc but they are few.

Never had one, never needed one, never gonna get one

[Zyt3x]

did it literally go KABOOM!?

More like KA-POoof *spark* and some smoke coming from the power supply

[Brain]

well I made a point to install one in my computer when I built it, I stole it from the garbage I believe...and painted it black.

I don't have it connected to power though...

[Smartzkid]

How could you be proud of using such a crappy technology which should never have become mainstream. It´s discs are brittle, crappy, small size and get corrupter easily. There were and still are better alternatives.

Price. Dependable. Durable.

[mrpickle]

Some of the greatest classical games can be found on floppy (though also downloadable)

Floppy are pretty much obselete, but, I still have one attatched to my 1998 PC xD.

[linppan]

Price. Dependable. Durable.

The reason the price is decent was because of it becoming mainstream and creating a small,brittle and easily corrupter discs cant be that hard . Have you ever used floppy's sir? They are not dependable, if you ask anyone who knows a thing or two about OTHER writing medias they would in 99% cases say that floppys are unstable compared to others. And am talking about in the 90s before that floppy's might have been a "good" alternative my computer knowledge doesn't stretch further then that.

I´ve known friends who have had their work corrupted for no particular reason, just gets corrupter. Even some got their floppys corrupter whilst working using it in their computer. All their work lost in a second. You call that reliable? Ive never experienced that using CDs, DVDs, flash drives, HDD, Zipdrives (which is a much better alternative then floppys). they are small and thing made out of plastic and a extremly brittle disc made out of plastic film how can anyone call that durable? If you mean durable as in time it has existed and used. Sure it lasted long but thats just of completely ignorance of it being a really bad storage media.

[The Claw]

Price. Dependable. Durable.

They're expensive (compared to CDs), very easily damaged, and fail often. Wayyyyyyyyy less dependable and durable compared to CDs/DVDs, at least in my experience. The number of times I copied assignments across to print out at school, and then to have it constantly say "Please insert a disk into drive A:" when it was already in there.....grrrrr. And yep they get corrupted very very easily. A piece of dirt in your pocket...the metal/plastic sliding bit snapping off/getting stuck always open...pretty much extremely unreliable.

They were the most cost effective option back in the day, but now, theres absolutely no reason at all to use them.

[Brain]

back in my day when I used floppies I always had 2, with the same data on them, since they didn't survive long in a back pack, even with a fancy case that the library sold and I paid $5 for. Hell, the floppies would corrupt if I looked at them too long!

[1q1q]

Computer did have a floppy drive, until I took it out for more room because it was so utterly useless in my computer.

[mrpickle]

On the plus side, floppys are shuriken-like when thrown.

[Smartzkid]

Plus they function as light filters if you want to capture IR.

[FEAR]

I don't have floppy drive in my laptop or desktop I found some of my old floppies of mine and I am sooo curious to know whats in them...but don't have floppy drives anywhere lol.

Now USB flash is the way to go

[Zyt3x]

Can someone please change my vote from No! to Yes??
I forgot about an old computer under my bookshelves that has one
The computer has 128MB of ram and can't handle the runescape homepage without crashing

[anonymity]

Can someone please change my vote from No! to Yes??
I forgot about an old computer under my bookshelves that has one
The computer has 128MB of ram and can't handle the runescape homepage without crashing

Holly smokes... that's a good 'ol computer .. wow... the only thing those computers are really good for anymore is to use them for multi-cpu processing. Hooking a bunch of them up to build a super computer... I am trying to build one ... so far I have 4 desktops that I am going to hardwire together.. I think it will be fu n.

[Zyt3x]

Holly smokes... that's a good 'ol computer .. wow... the only thing those computers are really good for anymore is to use them for multi-cpu processing. Hooking a bunch of them up to build a super computer... I am trying to build one ... so far I have 4 desktops that I am going to hardwire together.. I think it will be fu n.

Wow, I never though about that.. :P
the computer runs on Faildowns NT or something.. looks awful and it got an inbuild speaker that is making scary sounds when booting :S