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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Elim Garak: [QB] "It most certainly is a valid comparison. I haven't used a floppy in years..." You haven't, but other people use them still. The same is not the case with 8-tracks. Completely invalid comparison. "Fine, let's say that you use floppies to transfer files to another computer every day. Floppies are about $0.60/ea. Assuming a failure rate of one per week, you'd need to buy 52 floppies, which is about $30 a year." Err, I've never bought a second set of floppies in my life. (Mind you, they're only about three or four years old.) Seriously. And not a single one has broken. I've lost a couple, but never have they broken. And these weren't expensive floppies at all, either. How often do I use them? Well, I always have at least one to carry back and forth to school everyday. For what files? Usually just word documents (My printer is dying and has been doing so for some time [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG]), but I've used them for 1.2Mb+ stuff often enough. I don't think that Siegfried and I are freak exceptions, either. And I have friends who split files onto 3.5" disks for use over and over, too. "And, again, whenever I used floppies, if I used files of ~1MB in size, the disk would usually fail after one use." Must be a Mac thing. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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