I have almost forgotten diskette is called floppy disk and the floopy disk is called the diskette. Thanks to Google, it reminded myself. I want to say, oh god, there’s still people on earth using floppy disk as a data saving tool and it’s my school.
I was in charge of some editing work for the school magazine and they got me a floppy disk and I didn’t know how am I gonna read it because I have not been using this for like many years. Moreover, I don’t have floppy drive.
I remembered brother has a USB floppy drive that comes with his Fujitsu laptop years ago. I dig everywhere in my cupboard and found it lying there covered with dust.
After connecting via the USB, I found out that it doesn’t work. “USB not recognized.” Oh my god, tried all ports and it still doesn’t work.
Gave up and I’m not going to work for it anymore. Will just ask them to transfer it to a flash drive or something.
This is not cool, that’s why Mac didn’t have a floppy drive last time, but yet it’s still so cool.
3 comments
AudioDruid88 says:
Mar 2, 2010
I still use floppy disks occasionally. I use them to back up data that I don't use that often, such as old documents and bill statements. They are also great to use as a DOS boot disk to dump hard drive when I occasionally get a virus on computer!
One time, Someone I didn't like asked me to type something for him (no choice! had to do it!), I put it on a floppy disk, look on his face was priceless
Octavia says:
Mar 17, 2010
me to im still trying to figure out what this wasteful of time can do for me now!
Nicholas Chan says:
Mar 18, 2010
Yeah.