The Floppy Is Dead: Time to Move Memories to the Clouds

[Doro]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100426/tc_zd/250362
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[joemac]

Oh well, I still shift my floppy drive from each computer to the next. I haven't actually used it for years.

[Howard Neill]

I use a floppy quite often for moving small files from one computer to another. I find it quicker and easier than flash drives and all the hoops you jump through to remove it.

What you call a floppy, I initially knew as a stiffy. http://img.tfd.com/cde/FLOPPY.GIF

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[yarrumsg]

Howard, in my life i have yet to actually "safe" remove a usb device, hell i'll even remove a slave hard drive while the pc is still running...loads easier than a floppy disk 100 times quicker as well.

[zimboykie]

What you call a floppy, I initially knew as a stiffy.


Some Viagra will sort that out . . . .

[yarrumsg]

Howard is right though, i mention stiffy at work and i get wierd looks...

[Howard Neill]

Howard is right though, i mention stiffy at work and i get wierd looks...

First time I head "stiffy", it came from a hot looking Indian woman. I must confess to a double take.

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[yarrumsg]

now u are just giving a whole new meaning to the word head!

[licorice]

Always very confusing as floppys were stiff and stiffies were soft!

[boards]

now u are just giving a whole new meaning to the word head!

unless said in a real zimbabwean accent - ''i head the stiffy drive was no longer'':whistling:

[yarrumsg]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8646699.stm

blimey who would have thought there were like 4mill sold in a yea in the uk... still

ok granted like the guy says u need one u buy 10 or 20... but stilll

[magnum]

I used to use floppys to do my garden.....

[zimboykie]

I used to use floppys to do my garden.....

A bit un-PC perchance?