does anyone still use floppies

i was read a newspaper and it say floppy disk will gone , nobody will use it for next few years right now i use USB for data or software

ya...i think its a bit primitive now using the floppy.s....and most of the new computers are not buying any floppy drives...its a waste of money

this kind thing i don't use it anymore, my brother have 5 boxes full of floppy disk, you know what i spent over 5 hour to find the files i need, it is all because it capacity is to small, just wondering what you can compact to 1.44mb, if you have 1 program with 1.6mb how can you fit it on the floppy. i have enough to this thing and now i like to use pen driver.

Nope, it's not that the floppy's are more expensive, it's simply the fact that very few companies sell them anymore. Perhaps the only reasons people would ever use floppies today is if they were alive when floppy's were popular, or some programmer is trying to install an OS and for some reason doesn't have a CD boot drive. But yes, floppy's are very outdated. Computers no longer come out with floppy drives and the memory capacity of floppy drives are simply pathetic.

I find floppy disks profoundly useless. For a start, they don't have much space on them. Then there is the slow data transfer rate. In a time when flash sticks can be bought for less than a fast food meal, I don't see the point in continuing to use floppy disks. Floppy disks are actually bigger in terms of physical size than flash drives as well and so awkward to carry lots of them. Then there is the usefulness where pretty much any computer that you encounter will have a usb port (unless it is an antique as far as computers go) except not all will have a floppy drive. I know that mine doesn't.

Just a week ago i used a floppy after 4 years. Do you know what i stored in floppy? It was a compressed 80 kb file which on opening became 700mb using the kgb archiver.

Yes, I still use floppy disks for small files such as spreadsheets and documents etcetera. I can remember claims about 10 years ago that floppy disks were becoming obsolete, but they are still as useful as ever before and I intend to keep using them for some time to come.

no man long time since i have used floppy drive. actually i have not even installed a floppy drive this time in my new computer

hi there knightrider (77) i dont use floppies because i dont have on on my computer just a cd rom i have its good to have just in case because if the cd drive did not work then i can use the floppy take care

No floppies here, just dvd, and c.d's.

I do still use floppy disks, but only when I am at work and simply because they still have them and lots of them. I generally use a flash drive (jump drive) myself, but when at work, we tend to move around from computer to computer even though we each have our own. I find it easier to just grab the floppy and move to another desk.