On 2011/08/30 15:06 (GMT+1000) Chris Jones composed: > I can't see any reason for floppies these days considering their extreme > price per data unit as opposed to usb memory. For some people the price of floppies is a sunk cost, or was never a cost at all (e.g. me, who has over a hundred empty ones acquired 5, 10 or 20 years ago, some at 0 price). Unlike USB chips in most budgets, each floppy is cheap enough to be disposable after one use or dedicated to one small file. Floppies have enough room on them to write down something legible about their content (e.g. DOS boot with FDISK; Memtest86+ v.whatever; BIOS flash for xyz brand AMI BIOS; etc.) which won't interfere with insertion or removal from its reader. Floppies are large enough to be much less likely than a USB stick to get lost between couch cushions or fit through a pocket hole. Not everyone uses hardware with installed and functional OM, bootable USB or PXE. A rude installer might unset a bootable flag or fail to install boot code in the MBR of the only available internal storage, leaving the primary boot device unbootable, and a floppy the only available device to boot from without opening up the machine, if opening up is even any option at all. IOW, poor as they are, floppies still have both advantages and uses. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
