-------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689
posted
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...?)
Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
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.
-------------------- . . . ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
posted
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.
-------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
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.
-------------------- Is it Friday yet?
Registered: Feb 2000
| IP: Logged
Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689
posted
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.
Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
posted
saw a box of 5.25 disks a couple of years ago- some lawyer wanted them transferred to DVD.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
I guess so...looked like some class action thing they inherited or old cases from storage. Happens when law firms merge.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
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.
-------------------- Twee bieren tevreden, zullen mijn vriend betalen.
Registered: Oct 2000
| IP: Logged
posted
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.
posted
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.
posted
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.
-------------------- Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.
Registered: Jul 2006
| IP: Logged
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic
