Thoughts on no floppy drive...

I still use floppy disks for my school projects, in addition to other things like storing my bank security code. When I write essays, reports etc. I think it is still useful to use floppy disks in my case, since our school doesn´t have a fancy computer configuration. In fact we are still using the old 166 MHz Pentium processors and some P3 and P4 processors, along with a HUB network.
Therefore, most of our computers at school are particularly slow, unfortunately.

Our IT teacher requires that we sometimes deliver our assignments to her on a floppy disk, so I think it is still worth it to have a floppy disk (at least in my case).

All those saying they dont have floppies obviously dont have or use RAID ports. Win2K only accepts Raid drivers from the floppy. :mad: I have like 4-5 dead floppy drives around cause my old apt used to be full of sawdust from my woodworking projects and those FDDs are dust magnets. :(

Good thing is those dead FDDs work sometimes for 10 mins so when I want to install Win2K and RAID drivers, I try each of them till I find one that works temporarily. :D

I didn't get one for my latest Win2K system and haven't needed one at all. However, it is handy to have one for flashing and for loading drivers. For copying files to/from my system I can use the floppy on another of my networked machines... Until it gets old anyway.

about the only reason i keep mine in is because sometimes i might need to flash my bios or flash some hardware like a dvd-rom or something...

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Originally posted by bluesfusion
All those saying they dont have floppies obviously dont have or use RAID ports. Win2K only accepts Raid drivers from the floppy. :mad: I have like 4-5 dead floppy drives around cause my old apt used to be full of sawdust from my woodworking projects and those FDDs are dust magnets. :(

Good thing is those dead FDDs work sometimes for 10 mins so when I want to install Win2K and RAID drivers, I try each of them till I find one that works temporarily. :D

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Not exactly. I load raid drivers directly from the DVD boot disk.
All my software from MS comes on DVD.

I just purchased a new notebook without a floppy drive. Same as my old 1998 notebook, no floppy drive. I have not used a floppy since 1994 or 1995 IRRC.