http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/02/07/dell.floppydisks.reut/index.htmlI am not surprised.
Dell saying bye to floppy disk drives
Excerpt:
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -- In what may be the wave of the future, Dell Computer said goodbye to the past on Thursday when it announced it would stop making floppy disk drives standard equipment on its higher end desktop personal computers.
Austin, Texas-based Dell, the No. 2 personal computer maker, said floppy drives had been overtaken by technologies offering greater storage capacity and would become an option on its Dimension 8250 models.
Other Dell models may lose the floppy by end of the year, depending on customer response, Dell spokesman Lionel Menchaca said.
For the last couple of years, many of my clients have bought products by Dell. I have noticed a distinct and annoying tendency in many of their models, coming from whatever brand of Floppy Drives they pack in their system, to seriously damage beyond repair after a couple of years of use. It usually starts by the drives "eating" the disks. Eventually, the drives stop reading disks altogether.
Makes you wonder...
JJ
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