Floppies... do you still use them?

Damn...haven`t used one of those in a long long time... i still have a floppy drive in my pc though. Slowly but certain every storage device is becoming obsolete. DVD`s are gaining more popularity from the Cd`s with Blu ray disks comming up real fast, and external hard drives too. They`re more affordable and reliable and have much more space.

I dunno about you but I like floppies! I still use them, they're quite helpful. Especially when I'm trying to get rid of some nasty virus that my antivirus can't do anything about :D I simply dash it onto the floppy then burn it, lol. Then my computer is virus free and won't have any viruses detected anymore! That's a cheap and useful way of getting rid of such annoyances ^w^

Hi ahgong, Nope, I don't yse floppies anymore though I still have some of these old relics left. When I got my current computer a few years back as part of the freebie from starhub promotion, I was shocked that I couldn't find an A drive (small floppy). I looked everywhere thinking it must be hidden in some refreshing way but alas, I realize it really doesn't come with an A drive. Geez how much does that small weeny drive cost? I was appalled to say the least. Till then, I have always thought and assumed that every computer must have an A drive. It's just like how you assume every human being is born with one head, 4 limbs, etc. (Yes I know there are unfortunate people who are not as "commonly fortunate" and I swear I have nothing much sympathy for them.) So I still have some in my drawers but I just don't use them. I backup things online or via my small thumb drive. But really, I hardly need to do such a thing.

i must say i've not used them for the longest time. i started using company when we were still using the big floppy disks. then the smaller floppy which was so much better than the big one, or so i thought then. with zip drives, the small floppy was ditched and in turn the zip discs ditched when i got my thumb drive. i've still got some floppies with nothing inside. think i'm gonna contact a recycling company and have them take it for recycling. cheers ;p

haha. yes i remember them. i have the 51/4 ones too. those extremely large floppy disc those days by verbatim, 3M etc when computer first started and i have many boxes of them as i played a lot of games and was also working partime in a computer games shop. then slowly came the 3.5 which i still used them frequently in office about 4-5 years ago. i think we had the portable harddisc but it was too troublesome to use them. but i must say thumbdrive is good. i actually came across them from my subordinates who are hanging them by their neck. then i reallised its usefulness and since then, i have been using them. i still keep my floppy discs though as backup but i do not know how long they can last

I still have a Floppy Drive in my Desktop and a Zip Drive, I dont use them often but ever now and then I still need Floppy Disk's and I still use Zip Disks for Files that are Encrypted and I use often but dont want to keep on my Hard Drive for Security reasons. (Like all my Tax records)

It has become so obsolete that my pc doesn't have a slot for that poor thing.

i'm still using an USB floppy disk drive,sometimes i need it when reformat customer's PC,especially for that who's still using pentium 3 with windows 98,damn it!

I still use floppies on occasion. Not so much for personal use, but I am a PC service technician, and work on machines with older versions of Windows from time to time. In the event I have to reload Windows (not too often), the floppy drive works better than the CD-ROM for repartitioning the hard drive and preparing the machine to run Windows setup. One correction: There are no 2.5" floppies as far as I am aware. The small, 1.44 MB (literally 1.37 MB) disks are actually 3.5", while older disks were 5.25" and even 9" (only 9" floppy I've ever seen was in Computer Science 11). Cheers!

YEah, when computers are 1st introduced, floppies are needed to start up the computer.. lol =D And floppies are the pioneer of all storage drives.. But as technology improves, floppies are slowly fading away.. One thing is that, floppies spread virus very easily, and thus, CDs came out.. hehe Till recently, i have alot of unwanted CDs and floppies which i have just given away.. haha ^_^ And just as i was responding to this post now, i realise that my CPU does not have, A drive.. LOL

I have not used these types of discs in years. The computer memory is so large nowadays that it's almost unnecessary unless you work from different computers, such as a home computer and a school computer, but I don't, so no worries here for me! Most computers have over 50 or 100 gigs of memory now and I don't think any standard computers being made today even include those drives in their systems anymore!

no I am not using floppy disk because as the floppy disk store only some MB's of information so now I am using DVDs instead of floppy disk so it has become easy to store lots of memory in a single disk.

now the technology we got is DVD technology as the floppy stores less memory so that now use less for large data storage so now I'm not using floppies.

It's been ages since I used floopy disc. Blank CVD are more cheaper around here and it can stores more data. I don't think many peopla are using that thing anumore maybe only in old computers perhaps.

I have been cleaning out things too and found a big box of these, my computer when I got it didnt come with a floppy disk so we put one in and they still work. The problem is they only hold a little information compared to other venues. So i got rid of alot of them, I still have a dozen or so to go thru but I have no doubt I will get rid of them too. It is funny how fast things become a thing of the past and something else takes it place.

I don't use them any more. Actually my laptop doesn't have the floppy disk drive. My old desktop still have this drive but I almost don't use this computer any more because it's slow. Besides, the storage is pretty little. You know nowadays our file can be quite large. I love China

time turns like a tide and it was not long back when the floppies were the best medium for data transfer and i still remember some 10 years back when i got my first pc then i saw the floppies and now i have a box of floppies but i don't even know where i placed it. when something new comes, it replaces the old one and that is what happened to floppies and you have summarized it very well. i have just two floppies that i use which have the drivers for my old pc hardware and i kept it because they have got very beautiful stickers on them lol.

Thanks for posting a picture because I almost forgot what they are . LoL No, I no longer use them and it been years since, I seen them and do they even make them anymore? I wonder how you can transfer them now since, this computer has no drive for one?

Well , i actually do use them because me and my mom work in accounting ..and here in Romania the system is kinda slow and crappy and the prgramms that we use come in little floppy discks. So every month we stay in line with both the papers and the black floppy discks

Unfortunately I have a cabinet full of them, the only floppy drive I have is on my P2 Laptop but then I have no way of getting the info from there to my brand new desktop. =( Years ago I worked in a graphics shop and we used a system called Genigraphics which ran on memory and your storage was on 6in floppies. I still have all of my work on them with absolutely no way of retrieving it since that system is obsolete.