Terrible night

[Kuikorosu]

Last night is one that I wish I didn't have to remember. It was around 12 PM, and my DSL decided to stop working. No biggie, right? Well...I have an assignment on this computer that's worth an entire grade point (which is 25% of my grade, for the uninitiated) and I had no way of getting it off.

I figured it was something wrong with my computer. So I scrambled for a boot CD. The boot CD that I have can boot clean ethernet drivers, so it'd be cool. Unfortunately, that CD is a blank faced CD amid 15 other CDs with nothing on them. I had to sort through this mess. At 1PM. I finally found it, put it in, booted off of it, and found that DSL still didn't work. So the only option was to go to sleep and "hope it came back"

It did. But I was so scared that night that it wouldn't that I had nightmares and was physically ill. You see, there wouldn't have been any way to get my assignment off this computer if DSL hadn't started working again. Guess that'll teach me to cut corners when building a box. No floppy drive, all out of CD-Rs, no other computers to network it with, and even if I had CD-Rs, my CD-burner still isn't set up...

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you don't realize how important some things are until they're suddenly taken away from you. Something as simple as an internet connection could have ended up getting me a failing grade in a class. I've chosen a fairly unreliable thing to base something so important on, and maybe I need to change that. <img src=smilies/cwm10.gif>

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[shawn]

Then your not going to like the next home version of windows to come out in a few years, MS said they were doing away with the floppy disc altogether because it is an outmoded piece of hardware. <img src=smilies/cwm11.gif>

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[SharkESP]

> Then your not going to like the next home version of windows
> to come out in a few years, MS said they were doing away
> with the floppy disc altogether because it is an outmoded
> piece of hardware.

My cuz has a G4 that came with this 100 meg floppy drive...i think he called it zippy or something...

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[shawn]

> My cuz has a G4 that came with this 100 meg floppy drive...i
> think he called it zippy or something...
>

Superfloppy. Those are cool, I'm suprised those didn't catch on more with PC's than they did, I thought that was a great piece of hardware. <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

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[holyhandwrit]

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Superfloppy. Those are cool, I'm suprised those didn't catch on more with PC's than they did, I thought that was a great piece of hardware.


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aka Zip Drives...

If I'm not mistaken, I think a few Macs come with those built in.

My guess as to why they didn't kick in:
1. CD burners were already becoming the rage
2. floppies would probably be a more efficient and cheaper method for holding small docs/txt files (and viruses =p)
3. unless they were built-in, everybody would have to buy one to share files (this thing might have caught on in certain businesses and networks)

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[WhyteKnight]

> aka Zip Drives...

no no noooo my child. he means the LS-120 superdisk. LS-120 was basically a special but standard sized floppy accompanied by a special drive which used a 120 mb floppy disk (i believe these came in other sizes as they developed but i'm not sure. the format never really caught on which is a shame). it was also able to read and write standard floppies. Zip ended up being a more popular format somehow. The other small format mass storage devices that have major popularity are Jaz and Orb, though both are old concepts now what with rewriteable dvd and such. imho Orb was a better technology than Jaz as Orb disks held more data (3.3 gb as opposed to 1 or 2 for Jaz, though Jaz i believe goes up to 5 now and Orb goes to 5.5 or 6) Orb was also cheaper both for drives and media, an Orb disk weighing in at about 35 dollars compared to 80 or so for a Jaz. Personally I'd like to replace my floppy drive with a DynaMO drive.

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[Lillymon]

> LS-120 was basically a special but standard sized floppy
> accompanied by a special drive which used a 120 mb floppy
> disk (i believe these came in other sizes as they developed
> but i'm not sure. the format never really caught on which is
> a shame). it was also able to read and write standard
> floppies. Zip ended up being a more popular format somehow.

*Digs up an old PC magazine*

Wow. September 1996. Hmm... only the Matrox MGA Millennium supported hardware accelerated 3D. Guess Matrox really was a great choice once.

Well, the LS-120 drive was cheaper than the Zip drive, but the transfer rates were a different story.

LS-120

60Kb/sec sustained transfer rate
565Kb/sec on LS-120 disks

Zip

790-1400Kb/sec (average 1000Kb/sec)

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[WhyteKnight]

> 790-1400Kb/sec (average 1000Kb/sec)
>

True. its just the fact that the oddball format came out on top that i dont get. i mean they both had good and bad points, and a backward compatibility like ls120 just seems smarter to me.

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