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3 | 7.14% |
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1 | 2.38% |
| Within the last MONTH |
  
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1 | 2.38% |
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9 | 21.43% |
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15 | 35.71% |
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9 | 21.43% |
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2 | 4.76% |
| I have NEVER used a 3˝ floppy! |
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0 | 0% |
| WHAT IS a 3˝ floppy? |
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2 | 4.76% |
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0 | 0% |
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Zip drives were awesome! For about a year there.
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05-10-2010, 07:44 PM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Hard drives were supposed to be obsoleted by optical drives some years ago. We were supposed to go from hard drives, to floppy drives, to voyeur drives. About the same time, moralists took over the government. Innovation stifled.
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05-10-2010, 08:45 PM
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This is a fully functional babe lair
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2002/3 for me. In my Visual Basic programming class in high school, the Zip drives were always broken so we resorted to floppies since USB flash drives weren't as cheap or common back then.
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Touring the facilities
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05-10-2010, 10:57 PM
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LOL Zippy, no insult intended :P
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05-27-2010, 06:24 AM
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In my area, they still use floppies.........
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05-27-2010, 09:55 AM
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I have a box of 5 1/4" floppies and a ribbon for an Epson 9-pin dot-matrix printer in my office, both sealed. One day I'm going to put on an exhibit of obsolete computer stuff.
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05-27-2010, 10:10 AM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Not only do I have a bunch of lightly used 3.25 inchers, I have empty disk storage boxes that lock. I can't even find a picture of them on line.
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I have one of those, somewhere. (The larger ones.) I forget where I picked it up. Floppy Disks (3.5" variety) are awesome. They'll never be out-dated, never be obsolete!
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05-31-2010, 11:49 AM
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I'm about to try using nLite 1.4.9.1 to build an XP disc slipstreamed with Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
If this goes reasonably smoothly, I sadly will have less reason to visit my friend, the USB floppy drive.
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05-31-2010, 03:06 PM
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I am also trying the the "Unattended" feature which let me preload prompts (like the key, the language/timezone) that usually require you to hover over an install...as well as preload user, domain, network info, etc. ...waiting to see how that part goes...
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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Maybe these wouldn't happen if I ran at full auto, but also it would error out and not tell me in this case, if I didn't specify a field properly that was needed. Well, the actual problem of not having a USB Floppy at home with me was solved by building a slipstreamed CD with this utility, so in that regard "mission accomplished."
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