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04-28-10, 02:22 AM | #1 | |
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Farewell, floppy, old friend
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Dangit, still my prefered way of flashing BIOS.
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04-28-10, 04:08 AM | #2 |
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Hate em won't miss em.
Good riddance
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04-28-10, 04:12 AM | #3 |
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Floppy disks, still remember having one that booted up a Dos platform to launch my installed games easily back then.
and Floppy's are created by the Empire HunterICX
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04-28-10, 05:50 AM | #4 |
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Dang. Just when the quality of CD-RW discs was getting worse.
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04-28-10, 06:19 AM | #5 |
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Heck, when i gave the Computer place my list of things that i wanted in the new "rig", the person glanced over it, asked me a few questions, four i think, if memory serves me correctly.
1 of the questions was: Do you want a floppy drive in your P.C.? I looked at him, to see if he was having me on... Nope, he was serious. I said no in my most genuine and most respectable voice. |
04-28-10, 07:51 AM | #6 | |
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04-28-10, 08:26 AM | #7 |
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It said 'instert disk three' but only two would fit
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04-28-10, 02:50 PM | #8 |
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You didn't push hard enough on the third disk.
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04-28-10, 02:53 PM | #9 |
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Hey I'm still trying to figure out how to open that cupholder thing.
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04-28-10, 03:11 PM | #10 |
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04-28-10, 03:18 PM | #11 |
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KILL THE BLASPHEMER! KIIIIIIILLLLLLLLL!
Floppies still have the awesome use of opening the metal plate protecting the disk itself and then letting it slide back again and again and again...
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04-28-10, 03:32 PM | #12 | |
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I agree, BURN HIM! BUUURRN HIIIMM!! Hrm... how about "cleavage golf" using floppy disks?
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04-29-10, 05:48 AM | #14 |
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Rest in pieces, you wont be missed. Old friend.
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04-29-10, 09:06 AM | #15 |
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I remember making a backup copy of Star wars Tie Fighter took something like 30 floppies and like 3 hrs to complete
I don't even have a floppy drive threw it out years ago. Came in handy for formatting Windows 95/98 back in the day but once xp came out there was no need for a floppy startup disk anymore. |
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