Safe to say...you would need cases. Imagine the horror of reinstalling an OS off floppies...now imagine trying to watch the 8 gig rip of iron man off floppy.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:42 AM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: > I transferred data from all of my floppy disks to Zips, then CDs over a > dozen years ago, then to DVD, gave most of them away, but still have a few > to use with my ancient computers. Problem is that my Mac SE has a broken > floppy drive--only works on a network; makes a better museum piece. > > I went to Ollie's <www.olliesbargainoutlet.com/> yesterday to see if they > had any good DVD-RW disks left [they didn't], but they had several cases of > floppy disks--CHEAP. > > Floppies have been effectively obsolete for over 15 years. My 1GB flash > drive is obsolete. I bought a Toshiba 40GB 1.8" microdrive for $25 last > week--and it's obsolete, otherwise it wouldn't be so cheap! How many floppy > disks do you need to hold one commercial movie? > > Betty > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
