You absolutely can though. A 50/100 pack of 1GB flash drives is about $1.50 a drive on amazon. I looked at historical prices of floppy disks which were about $0

You absolutely can though. A 50/100 pack of 1GB flash drives is about $1.50 a drive on amazon. I looked at historical prices of floppy disks which were about $0.5 a diskette in 1990, or about $1.20 in today's prices. If you go down to a 512MB flash drive the prices are identical.