Floppy Drives, does your comp have one?

[Lurk]

I'm wondering about floppy drives and who's comps have it.

My comp no longer has a floppy drive. I even have the FDD controller disabled through BIOS.

[Jerry]

1 in the desktop, 1 module for the laptop, 5 or so in the cupboard and now in the bin since reading this.

Used for BIOS updates and memory checkers usually.

[Kerry-Anne]

None in the PC which I'm currently using so I voted no. But there is one in the laptop, and one in the shell (a PC with no hard-drives so can't call it a PC at the moment) but I can't remember the last time I used them anyway

[Joe Gronlund]

Nope, my Main system and my laptop, both dont have a floppy drive..

[ManagerJosh]

still have a floppy :)

[Caiman]

built my current PC myself, bought a DVD RW drive and have a USB pen. Floppy went the way of the dinosaur for me a few years back now.

[rossco_2005]

I didn't for a while but i added it in when i needed it once, decided not to remove it incase i ever do need it again

[Quillz]

I have an external USB floppy drive. It can come in handy every now and again.

[IDN]

Yes, used it the other day too.

[Rolla]

I have a floppy, if you don't believe it look at the topic in #vbfans :D

[Mac Write]

Not in my MDD but my Beige G3 has one, haven't used it (other then to try and get Debian on it last year) since the 90's. If I had waited 6 months and gotten a Blue and White well then no floppy.

[Floris]

No, of course not ;)

[daemon]

Nope. Apple ditched floppies quite a few years ago; and my PC laptop doesn't have one, either.

[KimmiKat]

There's one on the PC I use. I added it as the transit agency still sends me stuff on floppies now and then.

[Wayne Luke]

I don't have any floppy drives. With bootable optical media and USB flashdrives, they simply are not needed anymore.

[C.Birch]

Pc as one thats never used, but my laptop dont.

[Brad.loo]

I still have one in my desktop, just can't let it go ;). I don't use it for much anymore though..

[Creepshow]

Yes, my laptop has one.

[Anth]

My laptop has one, and theres one sat on the shelf from when I ripped my old PC to bits.

Originally it got used all the time when I was working on both the laptop and the 6th-form computers (easier than having to find a USB port on the back of a PC then realising the thing is still running Windows 98 and cant auto-detect the flaming USB pen).

Doesnt get used very often now, only if I have some old work on a disk that I need to check. With USB pens and my mp3 player for file transfer and quick backup then CDRW and DVDRW (when I work out how to use the thing) for bigger things I just cant find an excuse to use summat that holds 1.44 MB :confused:

[Ogden2k]

No, but I do have a USB floppy drive for when I do need one.

[0ptima]

I have 9-in 1 floppy that reads 3.5" fkppies and other media types like compact flash, etc

[JakeS]

Yes.

[Chroder]

Yep. Last time I used it was about a year ago when I needed to format the MBR. Though I won't be placing one in the next computer I buy.

[Mayers]

No my PC doesn't have one. I really don't have a need for one these days.