Finally, Death of the 3.5 inch floppy disk
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From: Stuart Longland on 26 Apr 2010 22:42 On Apr 27, 10:56 am, John Tserkezis <j...(a)techniciansyndrome.org.invalid> wrote: > Don McKenzie wrote: > > Sony announced on April 23rd that they will be discontinuing sales of > > the classic 3.5 inch floppy disk in Japan in 2011. The news marks a > > major end to a nearly three decade history of the disk type that the > > company helped to pioneer. > > Someone forgot to tell microsoft. > > The only way to load device drivers (drive interfaces, SCSI drivers > etc) when installing windows is via the drive at A:. And that's your > only option. > > Short of creating a magical alternate boot install CD/DVD for every new > model of box we get. Not looking forward to it. Actually, rumour has it, this is not the case in the two latest revisions of their OS. I say rumour as I have not ever tried installing one of these latest creations -- the one Windows Vista machine I used had it preloaded, and I've never touched Windows 7. But yes, you make a valid point ... and I shall make a note to stock up on 3.5" floppy disks while they're easily available, as some of the ones I have at home are slowly decaying with age.
From: larwe on 26 Apr 2010 22:47 On Apr 26, 10:06 pm, "Mr.T" <MrT(a)home> wrote: > >Quiz: Which music format showed the greater percentage sales growth in > >2009; was it (a) Compact Disk - Digital Audio, or (b) stereo vinyl 33 > > (c) Digital music downloads. > (d) Music DVD's > > Vinyl rose from a *VERY* small base, and CD's fell due to digital downloads > and DVD's. I explicitly did not include digital downloads for obvious reasons. I consider all physical media formats equally obsolete, so obviously it doesn't make sense to measure buggy whip sales against gasoline sales. BTW, I refuse to believe the music DVD one - I've never even SEEN a music DVD. It's like SACD; it's an acronym, there were/are devices that can play them, but they're a mythical unicorn format.
From: Royston Vasey on 26 Apr 2010 23:03 "Mr.T" <MrT(a)home> wrote in message news:4bd61f38$0$5591$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > > "Don McKenzie" <5V(a)2.5A> wrote in message > news:83mihlFa06U1(a)mid.individual.net... >> Footnote ** >> I laugh when the little ones of today, have to look at the back of your >> camera, after you take a picture. What did we do before they put the >> screen there? > > Most people waited 3 months to get their film processed before they found > out he photo was no good! > Digital camera's have at least seen a rise in people thinking about what > they have shot. Unfortunately camera phones have seen a fall in the > quality > of many of those "photo's". > > MrT. > > > > Yeah, unless it was steam, that one of Lara was quite blurry.
From: Mr.T on 27 Apr 2010 00:23 "larwe" <zwsdotcom(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:e553ee20-3038-472f-b8f3-5414db5bbf51(a)z33g2000vbb.googlegroups.com... >I explicitly did not include digital downloads for obvious reasons. Yes you appeared to be making an invalid point. >I consider all physical media formats equally obsolete, so obviously it >doesn't make sense to measure buggy whip sales against gasoline sales. How silly, even digital downloads must end up on some "physical media format", even if it's a hard drive. And IF you consider vinyl to be analogous to buggy whips, why the silly quiz in the first place? >BTW, I refuse to believe the music DVD one - I've never even SEEN a >music DVD. It's like SACD; it's an acronym, there were/are devices >that can play them, but they're a mythical unicorn format. Now that's *really* silly. I have about a hundred, and there are *many* thousands currently available. MrT.
From: Jon on 27 Apr 2010 00:25
"Stuart Longland" <redhatter(a)gentoo.org> wrote in message news:b6306cf1-8271-4dc7-90e6-c8cecb52edb4(a)k33g2000prk.googlegroups.com... >> >> Someone forgot to tell microsoft. >> >>The only way to load device drivers (drive interfaces, SCSI drivers >> etc) when installing windows is via the drive at A:. And that's your >> only option. >> >> Short of creating a magical alternate boot install CD/DVD for every new >> model of box we get. Not looking forward to it. >Actually, rumour has it, this is not the case in the two latest >revisions of their OS. I say rumour as I have not ever tried >installing one of these latest creations -- the one Windows Vista >machine I used had it preloaded, and I've never touched Windows 7. >But yes, you make a valid point ... and I shall make a note to stock >up on 3.5" floppy disks while they're easily available, as some of the >ones I have at home are slowly decaying with age. Server 2003 needs the floppy drive to load SCSI and SAS drivers, there is no option to read from a USB device. I'll soon be installing Server 2008 and we'll see if the floppy is still needed. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- |