On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current > > Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may > > make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is > > certainly going to complicate trouble shooting a standalone home > > PC. > > -- cmg > > So a useful tool for your box would be a usb superfloppy. I think > they are still available? Most modern bioses will boot from LS120 > and zip, I think > > Anne
Anne: Good point, and something that the laptop folks have learned to do. However, I still like the idea of a $10 floppy drive and a small stack of disks with various recovery tools on them. Floppies may be slow, and their limited capacity is a real pain, but they are simple, robust and nearly universal -- at least in the home/SOHO desktop realm. Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*&! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that they "want to help Grampa". Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and #1 Son. -- cmg
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