Who has - uses the trusty & old fashioned floppy?

As a writer, I have tons of stuff on floppies. When I bought a new computer this year (with no floppy drive) I had to buy a floppy drive attachment that plugs into the USB port. What am I supposed to do? Transfer everything from floppy onto flash drives? And how many flash drives will I need to do that (we're talking years worth of articles, poems, short stories and a couple of novels - plus a whole bunch of other stuff)? And flash drives aren't cheap. I have one flash drive which I use now but still use my floppies.

I have stopped using floppy drives more than four years ago. The last two PCs I purchased didn't even come with floppy drives, and it wouldn't be cost effective for me to buy such drives and mount them in the PCs. I had some floppies around, and I reckon that whatever's in them could be junked and ignored, because I used to store things in floppies more for transferring them from one computer to another, like working on a document at home and then bringing the updated file to load into my office PC. Those days, I didn't have any flash or thumb drives. So one day I just rounded up my floppies, destroyed them and threw them away. Thank goodness we had moved on from the days of the floppy drives because many times, I had unreliable floppy disks that couldn't be read after I stored data in them.

We found some old floppies and they had stories on them, I managed to salvage because my drive works & her's doesn't! Saved a good bit of retyping.

I still have a few of those rusty,old fashioned and not to forget (multi-colored) floppy disks. It took me awhile to realize that I should be using usb flash disk instead of using floppy d's. I guess I was the only one in class who brought a floppy disk for storage when almost every one have their usb having 512 mb - 2 gb storage. It was my turning point. It made me realize how useful and better the usb is rather than the floppy. But we always have to give credit to the floppy d's. It was our little storage for our little files back in the days.

USB Drive: 1-4 GB FLOPPY Disk: 1.44 MB USB Drive: USB 2.0 transfer speeds FLOPPY Disk: Slow speeds USB Drive: Durable, strong, some are waterproof FLOPPY Disk: Delicate, doesn't play well with magnets FLOPPY Disk: Only works on computers with floppy drives USB Drives: Works on any computer with a USB Port

The floppy nowadays is really only useful if you have an older computer that you will need to move data to and from. Otherwise a USB Flash Drive is much easier and holds alot more!

Yes, I have always used a Floppy drive and would not consider being without one. I realise that many people now consider the humble floppy to be outdated, but it still has it's uses. I store financial spreadsheets on a floppy, and also use a floppy to create an unattended installation of Windows. Floppy Drives are gradually becoming harder to find, but I always have a spare drive at home.

hiiiiiiiiii better take it and hit to ground and buy a new one

Hey, theres nothing wrong with using outdated hardware or software if it works for you. We still have Commodore 64's and Ataris' running in our house.

Once it was very common to use floppy disks for multiple purpose, now things have really changed...My floppy is, in fact, out-of-use for months, but I always try to keep some empty floppy at hand, because there are a couple of tasks which floppy can still do better (in my opinion) than any other support: first of all, sometimes I have to provide (to teachers, for example) written text 'cause it's required by my studies: in that 'case I sent them an email, but I also try to put my work on a diskette, to give the opportunity to have a single object that can be easily labeled and stored. The second thing floppy can do "better" is the (never outdated) function of recovery diskette, as boot disk: this way thy're practical, and can handle perfectly their job (many time I still use them to format my HD when starting bios, giving priority to floppy in my boot sequence...)

I don't like floppies at all and never liked them but I had to use my floppy drive for years and bought a cd-rom drive much later than they were available. Those USB disks are just great :)

Well, I can too be considered as dinosaur as the Diskettes. I´ve been using computers since the old DOS and have used those already forgotten 5 1/4 disks. I´ve already migrated to the pebdrive, or at least tried to: one beautiful day, when I tried to copy one archive to my sister's computers, my pendrive stoped working, and I got really sad.. But life goes on, and I give a hurray to the new storage tecnologies! Let's look out to the future!

My computer has a floppy port but I very seldom use them. But nor do I use a flash drive because I lost mine. I use my PSP! It works as a flash drive and is incredibly helpful for moving downloaded files from this computer to my computer which doesn't have internet. Also I can access the internet on my PSP so I've downloaded files on it before and then connected it to the computer and There was the file. The problem with using a PSP for a flash drive is the school issue. If I need to put something on the school computers I try to when no-one is in the room because I don't want to lose my psp. In conclusion, I think flash drives are better because the can carry most things when nowadays floppys can only really hold word documents and a picture or two.

I've used the floppy disk since high school but then I Swiched to USB disk drives. I let my floppy down.

i have uised tyhe floppy disk but it is not reliable so i am not using it/

I did need a floppy driver a few months back for a legacy program. Yes there is still lots of old software used commonly for small business that were made long ago and are distributed in floppies. Other good reason to have a floppy driver is for partition resizing in case you PC crashes and corrupts.