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> A floppy drive is still a basic tool for system construction In 2004! I grew up using Macs, so this is wild to me. In my candy coloured little world the flop
by sharkjacobs 7y ago
> A floppy drive is still a basic tool for system construction
In 2004! I grew up using Macs, so this is wild to me. In my candy coloured little world the floppy drive was finished in 1998 when Steve Jobs told me it was.
- Maakuth 7y agoIIRC the recommended way to provide possibly missing storage drivers to Windows XP installer was via floppy disk. XP was the go to Windows version in practice until Windows 7 release in 2009!
- imglorp 7y agoAfter they got tolerances figured out, 1.44 mb floppies were dependable and just about 100 pct guaranteed on all PC hardware, from whiteboxes to servers, oscilloscopes, routers, even clunky laptops. They made sense for little stuff like sneakernet and drivers for a long time.
- himinlomax 7y agoJust curious, why do you write "pct" instead of using "%"?
- HocusLocus 7y agoWhy did you write out the entire word why instead of 'y'?
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- himinlomax 7y agoYou do realize that the entire word would be "percent," don't you?
- hoistbypetard 7y agoI remember being horrified in 1998 when they killed the floppy. As a mac repair tech, we used them constantly, and the cost increase from shifting to boot cds was maddening. By 2004, I'd made my peace with it and had stopped including them on my PC builds.
- Rerarom 7y agoI got my first computer in 2000 and used floppies all the time in 2000-2002 to share files with my best friend. My next PC in 2004 also had a floppy drive, though I used them less and less often (I used CD-Rs in 2005, and then USB sticks starting in 2006). Only in 2008 I had a PC (laptop) with no floppy drive.