Floppies. A blast from the past!
Floppies went out about the same time that Viagra was introduced.
Floppies. A blast from the past!
Floppies went out about the same time that Viagra was introduced.
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Some time ago I purchased an external drive that allowed me to move info. off floppy disks to my thumb drive. At less than $20, it was a good investment, as I had several scripts on floppies that I didn't want to lose. The drives aren't hard to find and might be a good purchase if you continue to use floppies, though I'd advise transferring important info. to a thumb drive or hard drive or both. Just the 2 cents of a semi-confirmed Luddite...
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To the OP: Yes it is entirely possible to use any type of floppy disk as a backup medium. It is highly un-advisable to do. The reason being is that the magnetic film and opening mechanisms used on or in them have a high rate of failure. They should be considered a VERY LAST resort. I would also rank the old tape back up systems of this era a last resort.
Back in the 90s there were systems made by iOmega call Zip drives... those go right along with the advice about the floppies... more capacity than the floppy but I doubt any modern operating system would acknowledge there existence.
Then in the 90s optical media became the back up medium of choice with CD-R CD-RW CD+R etc... which of course led to DVD-R, DVD-RW, etc.Up until today where we have BlueRay Roms that can hold many GBs of data. There are a good back up method if you plan to need the data latter... not so much of a temporary point A to B medium.
Now the most common Point A - B type mediums are small like flash drives, hard drive enclosures that house laptop or desktop drives in them and use USB or e-SATA, and last but not least thumb/jump/ or flash drives if you prefer to call them.
Forgot to add... before the invent of the "flash drive" as we know it today there was a lot of other competing mediums. I believe this took place because of the race to become a standard for the digital camera popularity explosion. Early on there was CF or "Compact Flash" (anything but compact by today's standards), Sony's Duo stick, Secure Digital (which is still around in various forms... mostly in the mobile phone markets now), and a few others that have faded in popularity.
Last edited by dagent.geo; 15th March 2014 at 07:00 PM.
Best way to use diskettes for storing photos: http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Disk-Bag/
When you've finished the project, print out your photos, store them in bag. Done.
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Why not just get an exernal storage device which is essential an external hard drive? That way you can back up everything you need to, pictures, documents, music etc. and when you plug it in to your desktop/lappy you can upload to a website direct from the external drive if you have a more up-to-date computer and not a 15 years load of rubbish which my re-writeable CD/ROM disks have more space than the hard drive!
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I would think that in this day & age the use of an inexpensive flash drive would be more convenient if you wanted something easily transported and compatible with a variety of computers.
I'm not sure any of the later versions of operating systems would have the drivers to run a floppy disc drive.
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