Re: 8 inch diskettes -- MIDRANGE-L

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James Rich wrote:

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Richard B Baird wrote:

Diskette drives are optional.  I haven't used a diskette at work in more
than a year, so I don't believe I need one anymore.

There's nothing I can put on a 3.5 that I can't email, so what's the
purpose?


I use diskettes to boot a system that I've hosed or a new one with no OS
or one with disks that I've wiped.  Diskettes instead of CDs since not all
my machines can boot from CD and I don't even have a CD writer.

That's about the only use I can think of for diskettes these days. As Richard said, for small files e-mail works fine. For anything substantial, diskettes are too small anyways. There are better alternatives these days. If a writable CD is too bulky, you also have things like flash cards, which go up to at least 2G. Flash card readers are cheap these days - a month ago I bought a flash card and they threw in a USB flash card reader for free!

(These days, when I get photos printed at the camera store, I don't bring in negatives, I bring in a flash card!)

Cheers! Hans

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