Uhhh, unrelated question, but I was trying to make a comment (on one of my entries) and was getting an error message - I noticed it was #10000 - might there be a glitch somewhere, or did I just get lucky?
Lupus
· 6 years ago
I didn't bother to get a floppy disk for my new rig, and by do I regret it now - no way to recover when it all goes pear shaped. :-(
Remember, your system, for all its new gimmicks/features is still a house of cards. Take away the most basic, bottom card, and the whole thing comes down. A computer is nothing without an IO device of some kind, and HDDs come with too much baggage these days. Floppy drives are as simple as they come, and unchangable - hence they become a standard simply due to their unchanging nature rather than due to any admirable quality.
Xyleth
· 6 years ago
Bootable CD-Roms work as a good replacement for floppys. On most systems you can take a floppy image and burn it onto a CD and boot / update from that.
How old is your motherboard? And who's it made by? I know at least Gigbayte and Asus provide tools for their newer models that let you update from within windows.
Carlo Zottmann
· 6 years ago
ABIT KR7A-RAID. Good board, I guess it's slightly outdated by now. I just upgraded to an AthlonXP 2000+, so I think you get the picture. ;)
Tom
· 6 years ago
I want to destroy floppy disks. I happen not to use any at the moment. My uni has a place where I can print off Zip disk, and all the machines take Zip disk or CD-R so it's actually more convenient to stick stuff on Zip 100.
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Remember, your system, for all its new gimmicks/features is still a house of cards. Take away the most basic, bottom card, and the whole thing comes down. A computer is nothing without an IO device of some kind, and HDDs come with too much baggage these days. Floppy drives are as simple as they come, and unchangable - hence they become a standard simply due to their unchanging nature rather than due to any admirable quality.
How old is your motherboard? And who's it made by? I know at least Gigbayte and Asus provide tools for their newer models that let you update from within windows.
Floppy disks should have died in the 80's.