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http://www.macnn.com/articles/01/10/08/intel's.floppy-free/

Intel's floppy-free attitude discussed

updated 05:00 am EDT, Mon October 8, 2001

 
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An OsOpinion.com article discusses Intel's recent attempts to discourage PC manufacturers from including floppy drives and serial ports in their upcoming models. "The iMac's form factor, small footprint, colors, removal of many legacy ports, and nearly every other aspect of the machine have been all but entirely copied except for one thing -- removal of the floppy drive."


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  1. majinbutz

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    10/08, 05:21am | report spam | Reply | delete

    Huh?

    What's a floppy drive?

  1. beno

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    10/08, 06:32am | report spam | Reply |

    it's amazing that

    a. floppy drives are still being produced and put into PC's;
    b. chip builder Intel has to discourage their use.

    One couldn't ask for more proof that the PC builders are mindless distributors of whatever Intel/MS feeds them. No pride, no balls, no style, it's disheartening.

  1. \0

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    When was the last time...

    ...you've used a floppy drive? I've even dumped my Zip drive recently. With CDRW's as cheap as they are what's the point? :-)

  1. JHVH-1

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    10/08, 09:09am | report spam | Reply |

    CD's are the new floppie

    So is the internet.

  1. \0

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    Intel have retracted

    Apparently Intel have revised the statement. Either that or it was wrong in the first place. The Register has more details:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22082.html

  1. Pascal Lessard

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    Re: Intel have retracted

    The floppy manufacturers must have a lot of money to be able to force Intel to retreat !!!

  1. schwei

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    10/08, 10:50am | report spam | Reply |

    War Of Attrition

    When you work in an office where users with their own workstations don't even know how to:

    1) Create folders and save internal work documents on their internal hard drives, and can only do so on floppy drives;

    2) Don't know how to use their hard drive as a temp location to backup floppy to floppy;

    3) and finally, while watching *me* do so (on a wintel machine, ugh, no less), say out loud, "I have no idea what you're doing . . . gee, I didn't know you could do that." :

    It should suprise *nobody* that there is great resistance in the industry to retiring legacy components. Recall that it took apple to take the lead & update the spec on floppies from 5.25" to 400K/800K/1.4MB HD.

  1. archinla

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    10/08, 12:41pm | report spam | Reply |

    no floppy - no iBook sale

    A friend recently asked for my recommendation of what portable to buy. Naturally I said the iBook. He asked how he would back up his files and I said that he had to either opt for the more expensive CD-RW option or maybe upload backups to his website host server. This is a guy who only ever generates text files. Nothing else. He is a normal person, not a so-called "power user" like the people who probably frequent these MacNN discussions. He has no interest in learning how to deal with rewritable CDs and other newer (but not better) forms of backup. Apple lost a sale, and I have to say I totally agree with his decision.

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    No sale?

    USB floppy drives are...$50? $100? Not much. 100 MB Zip drives are also as cheap. OS X doesn't support floppy drives, though.

  1. Charles A

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    10/08, 01:20pm | report spam | Reply |

    no floppy, but iTools

    So you forgot to tell the guy that he could get an iTools account when he bought an iBook?

    Or that he could get a USB floppy? Or a USB Zip?

    The worries about backup are slightly overdone anyway; HDs are very reliable in the medium term..

    And if he was/is using Word, then he could struggle to get a single file onto a floppy. Those suckers get big, what with the invisible stuff detailing what path it's from, the print details, what you ate last night, your credit card number.... haven't you ever looked at a Sircam file?

    Charles

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