View Poll Results: When 3.5" Floppy will be replaced
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2005 or earlier
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win xp needs 6 floppies to boot up if you don't use the cd. In say, five years the most popular OS is going to be at least 2x at large as the current one. So would we need 12 floppies? that would make it inefficient to use, wouldn't it?
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I don't mean to load the whole OS, but to load DOS so you can then load the rest from a CD.
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Richard is on the same wave length
when you do repairs you NEVER start with the OS itself.
if you really want to load ANY OS, you either boot up with the CD ROM, or DOS first then load whatever you need.
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about what Bigjakkstaffa said, when eveyone can connect to the internet, Microsoft can make a bootable pc webpage and you can just download the files!
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Same deal
the internet idea is only good if you CAN GO ON TO THE INTERNET to get your stuff.
how are you gonna go to the Internet, if you CAN'T EVEN START THE COMPUTER?
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I agree w\ Allgamer when it comes to USB keychains but as long as win95 1st ed. and WIN NT 4.0 are still in use, the floppy will remain king. There are still lots of computers out there w\o USB onboard and lots of boxes running the old oper systems especially NT in the business world. It's to bad that the LS-120 didn't really catch on.
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Currently, the main reason for keeping a floppy drivce is to boot a machine under a diff opsys when the main one has problems, or does not support functionality that the OS can't give you directly (eg. copy between two primary partitions; read OS files (eg. registry))
The second reason is to install OS. If the OS is pre-installed, the vendor will say no diskette is required.
The third is to install drivers. If the OS can read a CD, then a diskette is not required.
The 4th is to re-install if the OS goes bad. I don't believe vendors will ever admit that they can ALWAYS get out of a mess. I don't believe them.
They should keep diskette units, BUT $$ says they will be gone. MOBO vendors will be forced to support boots from CD (not RW).
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I voted for more than 2014 or later because I think they will never go away
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Floppies go poof when all of these (and maybe more) are met:
Another media comes along
fits lots of Gigs
everyone has the drive/media
they are reliable
bootable
play music
fit in with copyright laws but not screw plp over
cheap as dirt
small and durable
works with all computers
(in other words, prolly not for a while)
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Originally posted by AllGamer
Same deal
the internet idea is only good if you CAN GO ON TO THE INTERNET to get your stuff.
how are you gonna go to the Internet, if you CAN'T EVEN START THE COMPUTER?
download through DOS like the old days
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Originally posted by _-~-_
Floppies go poof when all of these (and maybe more) are met:
Another media comes along
fits lots of Gigs
everyone has the drive/media
they are reliable
bootable
play music
fit in with copyright laws but not screw plp over
cheap as dirt
small and durable
works with all computers
(in other words, prolly not for a while)
why would it have to fit lots of gigs and play music?
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Also you can't make a storage device fit in with copywrite, copywrite deals with people copying material independent to the medium.
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Originally posted by rick42
MOBO vendors will be forced to support boots from CD (not RW).
What are you talking about???
I'm already able to boot from my CDRW in my CD/RW/ROM and+or DVD/ROM
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