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Fabrux
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Floppies? Oh man.

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Daniel Butler
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I just bought an Asus motherboard, brand new model, so new I can't even get the drivers to work in Linux or Windows for the onboard LAN...anyway...brand new thing, and it not only has a floppy controller, it supports 5.25" floppy drives. I was flabbergasted. (Rarely do I get to use the word flabbergasted. To flabbergast? He, she flabbergasts...?)
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http://thedesignstudio2000.com/img/RBD-090765.bmp

I still have something similar to the pic above plus a few other smaller containers full of 3.5in. floppies. And, I have a handful of 5.25s, which includes the original box and game disks for the Star Trek: The 25th Anniversary game (which, in case you were concerned, was indeed 100% IBM/Tandy Compatible!).

I've also got something just like this floating around, too.

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I used to have that old game on my old Atari ST! Never could get very far and it crashed like a ZX-81.

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Fabrux
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The computer I am using now while I build a new one has no floppy drive at all. My laptop doesn't have one, either. My deceased desktop has one, but I've rarely if ever used it so I probably won't put one in the new desktop I build. Even though I have several 3.5" drives floating around. And a 5.25" drive as well.

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Dat
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My current computer, roughly 3 1/2 years old, has a 3.5" drive. The one before that obviously had both a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive. I've still got several 3.5" disks laying around. I haven't had much use for them with my current computer. Still, at least I can still use them when I need to. My next computer, whenever I will purchase it, will probably also have a 3.5" drive.

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Daniel Butler
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quote:
The one before that obviously had both a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive.
What do you mean, "obviously"? I haven't even seen a 5.25" drive in 5 years, and that was on an Apple ][ built in the 80's.

I actually have the full, boxed set of Microsoft Windows 3.1 and DOS some-version on 5.25" diskettes, including manuals, somewhere in my parents' basement. Probably all corrupted by now, but interesting collector's item. I bought it by mistake from eBay thinking they were 3.5" disks.

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Jason Abbadon
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saw a box of 5.25 disks a couple of years ago- some lawyer wanted them transferred to DVD.

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Fabrux
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Wow, that's quite the leap in technology... should just got them all put on a jumpdrive.

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Jason Abbadon
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I guess so...looked like some class action thing they inherited or old cases from storage.
Happens when law firms merge.

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quote:
Originally posted by Dat:
Still, at least I can still use them when I need to. My next computer, whenever I will purchase it, will probably also have a 3.5" drive.

Um, why? You can get a usb floppy drive and toss it in your closet and pull it out if you wanted to use it.

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Lee
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My current PC doesn't have a floppy drive. It does however have one of those multi-card readers. Which doesn't recognise the second-ger 4Gb SD card I got to put in my mobile. Arse.

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Daniel Butler
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So go buy a USB card reader and floppy drive [Razz]
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Lee
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Can't be bothered, and USB-to-phone cable does the trick. The MicroSD card only fits in using one of those adapters anyway and I keep losing the bloody thing.

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Those external USB floppies run for like 20 bucks.

Anyway, I'm generally not a fan of ships that stray too far from the typical Trek design lineage. The Spirit looks pretty neat, but I don't like it in the context of ST.

Looks more like a Stargate ship to me.

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