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

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Sep 21 15:32:32 2004

On Sep 21 2004, 13:44, John Foust wrote:
> At 01:02 PM 9/21/2004, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> >Readers I've seen use the standard drivers -- W2K and WinXP
recognise
> >them. The little cheap 6-in-one/7-in-one/8-in-one card readers just
> >appear as multiple USB storage devices, like DOS disks (as do USB
> >"pens"). I got mine here for about five quid.
>
> I must be thinking about Win98 machines that needed the drivers.

Probably. I remember it was fun trying to get those things to work
with W95 (for certain values of "fun").

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 15:32:32 BST

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