Thoughts on floppy disks

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/11/2010 08:51 AM, Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Thu 10 June 2010 8:07:26 am Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>> On 06/10/2010 08:33 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>     
>>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide
>>>> to setup a pxeboot server,
>>>> and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation
>>>> in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt .
>>>> (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to be a typo.)
>>>>
>>>> In any case, this document, which is dated 1994-2009,
>>>> seems to be entirely concerned with "CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY".
>>>>         
>>> Apologies for sending this mild rant to the wrong newsgroup.
>>> I tried cancelling it, but was told I could not do this
>>> as I was not the author ...
>>> Probably a bye-product of using gmane ?
>>>       
>> I'm sorry.  Could you explain to me what is a "floppy disk"?
>>     
> please tell me this is a joke :)
>
>   
It would depend on who is saying it. 

Until relatively recently my wife was not a computer user.  The old
laptop she started out on didn't have a floppy.  The new netbook she got
doesn't have a floppy.  Only one system, in our home has a floppy, and
she never used that system. 

She took a contract job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs transcribing
old paper documents into a digital documents.  The first day on the job
someone handed her a floppy.  She had no idea what to do with it.  If
they gave her a USB drive, no problem.   So, for her, it was no joke.



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