Thoughts on floppy disks

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 10 June 2010, Mike McCarty wrote:
>Timothy Murphy wrote:
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>[...]
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>> Do floppy disks still exist?
>
>Yes, I've got several hundred.
>
And I have at least 2,000 or more, mostly 5.25" formatted for os9 (no not 
the mac os9, the trs-80 Color Computer version.)

>> Are computers with floppy drives still being made?
>
>Yes. Recently I bought one which didn't have a floppy drive,
>and I put one in.
>
>> It seems to me that as an absolute minimum
>> any documentation mentioning floppy drives
>> should at least explain how CDs can be used to the same end.

But only if the bios understands El Torito booting.

>Do I hear a volunteer, or do I hear a whiner?
>
>Mike

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