Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

From: chris <cb_at_mythtech.net>
Date: Mon Sep 20 12:04:45 2004

>Gee, neither of the last two new computers that I purchased had
>floppy drives (and one of those is about 5 years old now). I'd say
>this is old news (and the PC world finally catching up with the rest
>of us). I can't even remember the last time I used a floppy drive.

Heck the last two PC's I bought not only didn't have floppy drives, but
completely lacked floppy controllers, so I couldn't add one if I even
wanted to.

They also lacked on board Serial and Parallel. Everything was expected to
be done via USB.

-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Received on Mon Sep 20 2004 - 12:04:45 BST

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