Outdated technology, insufficient capacity, unreliable media and drives. It still seems funny to view a system without one and I will miss them when they have gone completely.

I'm with you on this one luton, cant really imagine computing without the good old floppy drive. Its saved my life a few time I can tell you.

I'm trying to fix my laptop at the mo.

Anyway one way of fixing it required me to go and buy some floppies.

I went to staples (you know, the big office supplies) on Saturday and couldn't for the life of me find any floppies.

I thought they musn't do them anymore because they must think they're outdated.

When I got to the counter and asked where are the floppies, the guy said:

"oh, we've not got any in, we've run out of stock, too many people asking for them"

I got them from somewhere else in the end but just shows you, no floppies left yet there were piles of CD-RW's still to be bought.

Floppies: cheap, easy, and familiar. Actually, I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said: "If we are what we eat, then I'm fast, cheap, and easy".

I was just reading a letter in a mag this morning that made a great point :

Just struck me as rather telling, don't you think ... :?: