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Floppy Drive??????

post #1 of 30
6/12/04 at 11:12am
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I just found out that alienware does not have a floppy drive????but my source is not 100% accurate so is it this true does the alienware have a floppydrive or what????
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post #2 of 30
6/12/04 at 11:22am
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Originally Posted by lovearea51m_1
I just found out that alienware does not have a floppy drive????but my source is not 100% accurate so is it this true does the alienware have a floppydrive or what????
no floppy drive.

why in the world would you want/need one?

also has anyone else ntoiced that floyy discs just stopped working on janyuary 1st of this year?

inexplicable not one of the dozens of floppies i have will read in ANY of ym pc's!

also experienced this at work
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post #3 of 30
6/12/04 at 12:01pm
Screw Floppy Drives!
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post #4 of 30
6/12/04 at 12:01pm
What he said! ^^
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post #5 of 30
6/12/04 at 12:23pm
I purchased a $20 external USB floppy for my AW, unlike the above posts I still require one for work reasons. Reasons such as creating bios update floppied for older servers, and update and disks for older CISCO hardware like LD417's and such.

You can get an external USB floppy at almost any computer store, I picked mine up at my local Micro Center.
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post #6 of 30
6/12/04 at 12:24pm
Floppy drives = ghey
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post #7 of 30
6/12/04 at 12:48pm
my floppy drive stopped working 2 1/2 years ago... i consider that the death of all floppy disks. anything that can fit on a floppy is small enough to be e-mailed.

but you're right about the bios... hehe.

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post #8 of 30
6/12/04 at 1:43pm
They is a new device that has made floppies obsolete, called a usb flash drive or thumb drive. I bought six of them for my clinic to use for doing backups of our Quickbooks and proprietary client databases. Damn, I need to write my own clinic management software with SQL server backend (and then sell it to other clinics when I have it perfected).
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post #9 of 30
6/12/04 at 1:56pm
Is that the "DB Clinic for the Criminally Sarcastic"? I think I saw something on CourtTV the other day about that place.
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post #10 of 30
6/12/04 at 2:47pm
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Originally Posted by pico
my floppy drive stopped working 2 1/2 years ago... i consider that the death of all floppy disks. anything that can fit on a floppy is small enough to be e-mailed.

but you're right about the bios... hehe.

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if you can find a computer that can read floppies you are in the rare... they just do not work anymore
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post #11 of 30
6/12/04 at 2:49pm
You would be surprised. I am really a nice guy when you get to know me. I just have a strange sense of humor. The clinic is a veterinary clinic (my wife is the vet, I run the computer stuff). We have five vets and about 12,000 clients.
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post #12 of 30
6/12/04 at 3:17pm
Ditto with the flash drives.

I have never touched a floppy every since I received my Area 51m. I ordered the Alienware USB flash drive, and I've never looked to floppies since. They store more information, is alot faster to use than a floppy drive, and is more convenient and durable (you should see the tests MaxPC had run flash drives through).

Mind you that you can still burn your files onto a CD-RW like floppy if the USB drive isnt your thang. Like what time-pilot said, if you absolutely need a floppy drive an external one should suffice.

Floppy drives arent too practical in newer laptops that try to jam pack alot of features into a smaller form factor. Floppies are obsolete and are going the way of the ISA slot.
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post #13 of 30
6/12/04 at 3:20pm
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Originally Posted by DarthBeavis
You would be surprised. I am really a nice guy when you get to know me. I just have a strange sense of humor. The clinic is a veterinary clinic (my wife is the vet, I run the computer stuff). We have five vets and about 12,000 clients.
i've always wanted to do like, an internship or have a job at a vet's office, do you have any college kids who work there? they like the job? seem happy and whatnot? i always liked animals and working with them, but my mother never let me have any because she didn't want the messes (i.e. hair, food, bathroom habits, etc...)

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post #14 of 30
6/12/04 at 3:48pm
Some of our techs and receptionists are college students. My wife worked as a tech during her undergrad and also while in vet school. We also have high school students spend a day shadowing a vet here and there. They really get a kick out of it. You can become a licensed vet tech with (I beleive) a year of school or so. You can make decent money that way (although being a vet is much more $$ than a vet tech but it also means 8 years of college). Being a clinic owner is where the really big bucks are.
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post #15 of 30
6/12/04 at 11:46pm
what are floppy drives...lol...i don't think i have seen one of those in ages...at least since windows me...lol...jk jk...just burn things to cd's for pete's sake...and for those things that are to small to waste a cd on...thats what those nifty little usb flash drives are for. Or better yet if your looking to bring some of your work files home. Just use something like Yahoo Briefcase and store those files to, then when you get home pull them back down. Then you don't have to worry bout leaving your flash drive plugged into your computer...and driving all the way home to realize you left it at work. (p.s. i do NOT know this from experience)
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post #16 of 30
6/13/04 at 12:46am
I don't even use CDs. I use DVDs if I can't fit it on my Cruzer.
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post #17 of 30
6/13/04 at 3:38am
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Originally Posted by Time-Pilot
...unlike the above posts I still require one for work reasons.
Always nice to encounter another user whose sole existence is not limited to the recent.

Legacy support doesn't die when newer technology is released, unfortunately. Floppy drives are a necessity in some instances (machines lacking USB, ATAPI type drive, etc). Most likely will be another three to five years before the 3.5" floppy is phased down (not completely out, mind you) to a near non-existant level.

Case in point: read a recent article in MIT Technology Review regarding two developers - Zennström and Friis. Interesting interview. Though many are most likely unfamiliar with these names, would venture to guess nearly every user in this forum has used at least one of the products, at one time or another. Their current project (Skype) has the potential to surpass the popularity of their well-known venture - perhaps a project more familiar to the masses? It goes by the moniker "KaZaA". In the article, it mentions both the developers still write a majority of their code on 233MHz-MMX class machines.

Would bet they both still use a floppy drive or two.
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post #18 of 30
6/13/04 at 1:32pm
plus you can create a boot disk if your having problems on a USB device haha go USB!
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post #19 of 30
6/13/04 at 1:49pm
Modern computers can boot off CD. I built my home system (almost 2 years ago) without a floppy drive. The problem with flash drives is Windows 2k does not always recogize them (the mills I develop for all use Win 2k). This is not a problem because they are networked.
BIOS makers should include the ability to BOOT off a flash drive.
Floppy drives are way obsolete. I can't even fit a decent-sized midget porn pic on a floppy drive! Now that is just plain ghey.
**Don't bother with a retort to that last statement. You cannot win.

All this talk about floppy drives makes me feel needy. Time for a group hug.
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post #20 of 30
6/14/04 at 11:27am
I hate having to use them but we do, case in point I designed a new solution for cell phone sales kisok machines for a client. The client oddly requested that this unit fit into small cubby hole in the display case they were using, and they requested of all things IDE RAID for a redundant mirror. In order to mirror the drives I had to remove the CD-ROM from the only available bay and install the second hard drive in it's absence. Long story short I need a 3.5 floppy to mount the external USB cd-rom drive on these machines, or to do a network boot floppy to a WAP inside the shopping mall.

It sucks but it happens.
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