I have 3 PCs in total. 2 desktops and 1 file server. The 2 desktops run Ubuntu/Linux and the server running BSD. The server is an old desktop system that has had various upgrades and various transformations throughout its life. But when I go back to its origins, it will be 10 years old now. And even in its early beginnings, it still had full usb support. And effectively having no 'real' use for floppies. Even though it did come with a floppy drive ootb.
I see it all the time. "Some older hardware still requires floppies..." It just seems like a generic defense statement for the fans of floppies and for those who insist on using them for god knows what reason.
Any hardware that is true to that statement must be at least 15 years old surely!
And for the cheap price of PCs these days, whether it is building your own or grabbing an oem system, just upgrade to something that does have full usb support.
USB sticks may be small and easy to lose, correct. But I don't know how many times I've put several of mine through the washing machine and they still continue to work. Try putting a floppy disk through the washing machine and then try reading the data and see what happens.
And as far as losing them, they always turn up again. And for permanent loss, I really don't care as I encrypt all my data when using usb sticks anyway. And if I don't find it, for $10 I can easily get another 8GB anyway.
Regards
Chris Jones
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