floppy support

[drago01]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2011/08/30 15:06 (GMT+1000) Chris Jones composed:
>
>> I can't see any reason for floppies these days considering their extreme
>> price per data unit as opposed to usb memory.
>
> For some people the price of floppies is a sunk cost, or was never a cost at
> all (e.g. me, who has over a hundred empty ones acquired 5, 10 or 20 years
> ago, some at 0 price).
>
> Unlike USB chips in most budgets, each floppy is cheap enough to be
> disposable after one use or dedicated to one small file.
>
> Floppies have enough room on them to write down something legible about their
> content (e.g. DOS boot with FDISK; Memtest86+ v.whatever; BIOS flash for xyz
> brand AMI BIOS; etc.) which won't interfere with insertion or removal from
> its reader.
>
> Floppies are large enough to be much less likely than a USB stick to get lost
> between couch cushions or fit through a pocket hole.
>
> Not everyone uses hardware with installed and functional OM, bootable USB or PXE.
>
> A rude installer might unset a bootable flag or fail to install boot code in
> the MBR of the only available internal storage, leaving the primary boot
> device unbootable, and a floppy the only available device to boot from
> without opening up the machine, if opening up is even any option at all.

CD/DVD ?