What happened to floppy drive support?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 17:23:32 -0500,
  Ralph Blach <rcblach at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is a floppy drive???
> 
> Well seriously, I think their are better options now.

I use a couple of laptops every summer that the easy ways to share data
with my other computers is with floppies. For backing them up where I
use them (in case someone mistakes them for computers that have value
to normal people), floppies are again the most conventient thing.