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| Date | 2014-05-22 02:19 -0700 |
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| From | Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> |
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: the worst storage media of all time |
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On 5/21/2014 10:34 PM PT, Will Honea typed:
>> Floppies gave way to CD-Rs around 1995 for non-windows users (who *had*
>> to use floppies for drivers as much as ten years after the floppy became
>> otherwise irrelevant) and CD-Rs went away with DVD-Rs. Then the USB
>> thumb drive started to get useful sizes, though I had no interest in
>> them until they were in the 2GB range.
>
> Lest we forget, many PC makers required a bootable floppy device to install
> BIOS updates for many years after NVRAM of one form or another replaced
> optically erasable EPROMS. I still keep at least one usable 3.5 floppy
> device around.
My old PCs still have internal 3.5" floppy disk drives. I still use a
couple of them for their boot disks since they are test machines for
work. Way faster than using discs especially with WinPE! :)
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the worst storage media of all time RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-19 14:49 +0000
Re: the worst storage media of all time polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-05-19 19:34 +0100
Re: the worst storage media of all time Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-20 16:09 +0100
Re: the worst storage media of all time Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-20 16:36 +0100
Re: the worst storage media of all time Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-21 02:49 +0100
Re: the worst storage media of all time polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-05-21 08:36 +0100
Re: the worst storage media of all time Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-21 13:19 +0100
Re: the worst storage media of all time RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-21 13:07 +0000
Re: the worst storage media of all time Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-21 14:35 +0000
Re: the worst storage media of all time polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-05-21 22:40 +0100
Re: the worst storage media of all time Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-22 15:52 +0000
Re: the worst storage media of all time Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-05-22 13:53 -0600
Re: the worst storage media of all time Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-05-21 23:34 -0600
Re: the worst storage media of all time Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-05-22 02:19 -0700
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