Comments on: The floppy finally flops

By: JC John SESE Cuneta

JC John SESE Cuneta — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:08:04 +0000

I still have Mini-Floppies lolz. and they’re still on good working conditions, I can still play my old games for 8086 and 80386 lolerz.

Yep, I bought a new PC (Core 2 Duo) last week for my birthday, no floppy drive, but instead a bunch of new-storage drives, and 7 USB slots (imagine that).

I just wish WinXP put an update to allow us to delete the Drive A because WinXP produces error when shutting down :/ it checks for Drive A which doesn’t even exist.

By: jun

jun — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:19:09 +0000

i still have about 4 boxes of used floppies at home. some of them still work. They still have their use (when my flash disk is not around).

By: karla

karla — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:43:36 +0000

the last time i used floppy disks..
when i was in 3rd year college
then i got tired of it because it breaks down after using the disk in another PC
then, i used a Flash drive instead

By: jhay

jhay — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:14:18 +0000

I also wrote about this, but I stressed that here in the Philippines, most Pinoy students still rely on floppies for their portable storage needs. Here's the post, if you don't mind.

By: deuts

deuts — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:29:52 +0000

I remember using floppy disks to back-up audit files back in 2002 in one of my medium (only) clients. It took me around 8 to 10 diskettes to complete the back-up, and around say 30 minutes for back-up to complete.

You’ll lucky that time if you have pentium II notebook for the frequency of your computer hanging during back-up is quite low.

By: LadyVi

LadyVi — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:21:08 +0000

@Miguel

It’s SSS for the quarterly report (R3) and Pag-ibig for the monthly report.

These are mandatory contributions report of Employer and Employees.

By: Cheeseter

Cheeseter — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:03:44 +0000

I have not used the floppy disk since 2001. Lately I just used CDR costing 6 pesos. Or I just save it in my gmail.

By: Fleeb

Fleeb — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:36:36 +0000

Flash disks are cheaper these days. I bought mine from CDR King.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:51:03 +0000

When I bought a (then) new PC in 2002, I dropped the floppy drive.

But companies in the Philippines still need them. Why? One of the government agencies (SSS, Philhealth or Pag-Ibig is it?) requires them to submit records via floppy!

By: WiLL

WiLL — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:01:11 +0000

I still have a floppy drive on my laptop. It’s a very old vaio. Never had the chance to use it, not even once.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:46:58 +0000

The last time I used a floppy was probably in 2002 – college. Yeah, I think floppy is now dead. I no longer have any floppy drive at home but I have lots of floppy disks, those I used since highschool

By: Nostalgia Manila

Nostalgia Manila — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:11:58 +0000

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