Isn't it great that floppy disks are dead? Well alright, they're not completely dead, but I can't remember the last time I used one. That's a refreshing change from the days of loading your entire operating system from floppy disk each time you turned the machine on..
The reason why they're dead, of course, is mostly because every PC in the universe is connected to a LAN, a WAN, the internet, or has some other network method of transferring files to other machines. For those that don't, and for a million other reasons, the explosive popularity of USB flash drives has assured nobody will reach for a floppy disk when they need to store or transfer a file. Everyone has a USB port in their PC and virtually all opterating systems will make a flash drive available as soon as it's plugged in, with no drivers required.
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Nov 17, 2005, 12:03 PM
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