[louisiana]

Not real important but funny that they follow Apple again - article on CNN.com today about Dell dropping the floppy drives from its PCs - http://www.cnn.com/2...reut/index.html

[rockinphotog]

It's about time.

[Nobody]

Gee I wonder where they got that idea from???

[svt]

The floppy was not what made me smile. What I have always founnd interesting is the way Dell describes their laptops as only 1.8 inches THIN. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[griffman]

What's a floppy?
-rob.

[Nobody]

has it been 4 years since Apple dropped their floppy? /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
4 1/2 by my counts. We were one of those who pre-ordered one fo the revision A iMacs that started Apple's recent uprising. Of course, they have fallen into a little rut right now.
MacCheetah3
"Why am I covered in gravy?"

[digedit]

Yeah, I'm so happy Apple dropped floppy support so soon. Thanks to that brilliant innovation I had to go spend $170 for an external USB floppy drive when I bought my B&W G3 3 and a half years ago. Most of my software authorization was by way of PACE copy protection so I had no choice. Neither did anyone else with software which used PACE authorization. I don't have a problem with making it an option but I don't really consider dropping Floppy support anything to brag about.

[mystery_stain]

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Gee I wonder where they got that idea from???

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I envision Michael Dell sitting at the head of a meeting table and suddenly yelling, "Oh my GOD...I just realized we're living in the twenty-FIRST century!!!"

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
I know how you feel. I bought the Imation SuperDisk when it first came out because of that. I also had to buy the Keyspan USB-to-Serial Adapter. The original iMac did create headaches, but I and apparently others believed it was the move in the right direction.
I don't like to use floppies anymore. With the advent of CDs, high speed Internet, etc....floppies are horrible compared to these new technologies. They are small, slow, and unreliable. They were fine a few years back, but technology has evolved and Apple goes with it.
MacCheetah3
"We need someone to donate blood for my dieing calf"

[Nobody]

digedit, I hear ya, i have an imation superdisk collecting dust on my shelf as well.

[Nobody]

I'm mainly a PC user (but switching fast), and when I got my new PowerBook G4 I was amazed to discover that there was no floppy drive, neither built in or external. I'll admit, it is quite a pain when I want to type something up at school on my PowerBook and then get it onto one of their Windows boxes. I think that we need to hold on to the floppy untill CD-RW and DVD-RW technology becomes as common on computers as the floppy drive is. It's just like Canadah having both English and French as the national language... Nothing can get done.

[GlennBlaylock]

What I found amusing was that the article stated that Dell is considering dropping the serial and parallel ports. Now, I don't know much about those ports other than that they have been around for a long time. Therefore, I would think that they are getting obsolete too. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[papasmack]

Yes, as far as Im concerned, the serial and parallel ports can hit the road along with the floppy. I can only see using those with older printers and joysticks, oh, and maybe a serial mouse (Ha ha). You should only need USB.