On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > 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
Know the feeling <g> I know they're not fashionable, but I wouldn't be without my LS120. It reads standard floppies as well as the 120MB disks, so it would still do what you want. Oops - I sound as though I work for Imation <g> Anne
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