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Subject: Re: Computer people/experts please read :-) (need a little help)

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 03:47:16 09/27/03

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On September 26, 2003 at 17:20:58, Dan Andersson wrote:

> I won't miss the floppy ;) Not with nice Mount Rainier CD-RWs available. I
>would choose a MB with as few old legacy systems as possible. Not certain what
>dual AMD boards have shed most old stuff. SATA would be nice.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

I did not buy a floppy drive for the last box I built, but then bought one (5 uk
pounds) just to update the bios.  And my source code still backs up nicely on a
single 1.4MB in a few minutes with cp -v -u etc --reply=yes.  Floppy drives are
still useful even though IBM(?) have been trying to kill them off for years.
Like a computer chess program they will just not lie down and die gracefully.

Frank

(I know you can make a boot CD ROM, but ....).




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