(29/04/2010 05:54 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  

(28/04/2010 07:05 PM)Hellgiver Wrote:  I'll bet you spend quite a bit of time around other computer-educated, or at least, avid computer-using people.

Actually I'm not.  Weird maybe, but I'm rarely around computer folk.


I still recall splitting and spanning a 30MB file across a number of floppies...

Well, I am constantly around people who are either a) computer-savvy, or b) trend followers (i.e, teens to late twenties). From my personal experience, I don't actually interact all that much with people over the age of 30 (for the most part), and I'd suspect that a huge number of floppy users these days are most likely in that age bracket...

I'd wonder about possible polls to get a better idea, but those who use floppies at home probably aren't the type to come across such a poll, let alone participate. I also wonder if it is used for menial tasks at businesses, such as to keep up with weekly costs, or something else that wouldn't warrant a 1gb thumbdrive. Or for that matter, they might file them away. Who knows?

Wee still use them in the school i work at. There used for kick starting the rebuild process of our desktops, I guess the schools to lazy to upgrade to pendrives :/

EDIT: though wee still have a classroom full of old RM machines, I think the RMOne machines are the newest wee've got.......plus the person in charge of finance isn't allowing us to buy anything :(

(29/04/2010 11:59 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Windows XP can only load storage drivers from floppies (assuming you want to install on something which requires the storage driver).
That's probably the only main thing I can think of, for a more technical person.

But floppies are slow and unreliable.  I found many of my floppies would stop reading and stuff.  Pretty much all PCs past 1998-9 had a USB port.

If that is true, I'm sure it contributes to some of the sells, considering how many businesses I see still on XP (including every computer at my university). Point is, wee really don't know what is happening everywhere.

I've remember when I'm in highschool, wee put the gb emulator in the floppy then wee play pokemon there, lol

and yeah I've experience also splitting 20mb files in 4-5 diskettes

I used to use floppy dicks back in elementary school.  I didn't think they even still made floppy disks in this day and age...

(07/05/2010 12:46 AM)Metal_Head95 Wrote:  I used to use floppy dicks back in elementary school.  I didn't think they even still made floppy disks in this day and age...

^same

Also is that a spelling error, or was that intentional? lol