klingon 10 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Who has a floppy disk drive now on their pc? (Poll below). I don't have one on the 2 machines I have. Quote: The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned. Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs could not always open old file formats. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6265976.stm Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 If it doesnt open under Windows, you can always mount it under Unix. It will open! Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted July 4, 2007 Author Share Posted July 4, 2007 Not many people knowing about Unix though I'd have thought - including me! Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Well, you now have one more reason to brake free from Bills monopoly. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 I haven't had a computer that had a floppy drive for at least 2 years now. They are "add-ons" now! Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I thought we did this poll like 10 months ago? Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Floppy disk is a storage medium not a file format. That article is poor, they start off talking about floppy disks (storage medium) and then suddenly they introduce OpenXML (file format) which is something totally different. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Any file can be read if you know the specification. Magnetic media will always fail eventually. Storing data on floppies is very short term. Link to post Share on other sites
minus 1 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 may not be the best written thing but on a personal level I have had times when I can't get data from an old floppy and indeed now I don't have a drive. Link to post Share on other sites
Retired Morris Dancer 0 Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 The last 2 machines of mine have not had floppies. I think the last time I used one was about 5 years ago. I do have a lot of discs though and I suppose I'm going to have to find a drive to get them all on my pc once and for all. Most of it will be junk but I want to check them all before clearing out. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 I remember the days of the Spectrum and cassette tapes, along with the fuzzy screen as things loaded. I was always impressed with all that technology. Link to post Share on other sites
guzzlers-baps 0 Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 guzzler still has a Spectrum. He showed it me last summer even set the thing up. The rubber keyboard is hilarious. Horace Goes Skiing was fun Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 I also have one somewhere. Link to post Share on other sites
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