05-28-2004, 05:32 AM
I was staring at my year and a half old computer just now, and I realised that I have never, ever used the floppy drive that it came with. Frankly, I don't even know if it works or not.
The last time I used a floppy disk for anything meaningful was when I was in college and I had to save some AutoCAD drawings for a project, and that was 8 years ago. I haven't used a floppy drive since.
Personally, I can't even imagine a situation that would prompt me to use my floppy drive. If I need to transfer a sub-1.5 MB file, it's insanely easy just to e-mail it to a webmail account and open it on another computer. For large files, CDR or FTP is where it's at.
The only circumstance that I can see a floppy drive being even remotely useful is for computers that don't have a CD burner and that don't have an internet connection. For the home PC market, that's an incredibly insignificant number. So why are new PCs still equipped with floppy drives? It seems like such a waste to me.
The last time I used a floppy disk for anything meaningful was when I was in college and I had to save some AutoCAD drawings for a project, and that was 8 years ago. I haven't used a floppy drive since.
Personally, I can't even imagine a situation that would prompt me to use my floppy drive. If I need to transfer a sub-1.5 MB file, it's insanely easy just to e-mail it to a webmail account and open it on another computer. For large files, CDR or FTP is where it's at.
The only circumstance that I can see a floppy drive being even remotely useful is for computers that don't have a CD burner and that don't have an internet connection. For the home PC market, that's an incredibly insignificant number. So why are new PCs still equipped with floppy drives? It seems like such a waste to me.