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> mainly because it has a proper floppy drive on it What are you using it for? Floppy disks were already very dead by 2008, let alone 2020.
by bicolao 6y ago
> mainly because it has a proper floppy drive on it
What are you using it for? Floppy disks were already very dead by 2008, let alone 2020.
- nitrogen 6y agoNot the OP, but some industrial equipment and musical instruments have floppy drives in them, and it may be cheaper and easier to keep an old desktop running than to retrofit the equipment. E.g. I have an old synthesizer I like that stores patches on floppy.
- forest_dweller 6y agoI have a few old retro computers and a usb floppy drive doesn’t cut it for Amiga and Atari floppy drives (some say it works online but I’ve tried several usb floppy drives and IME it does not). I know there are alternatives to using a floppy to transfer to these ancient systems but for me it works okay.