When was the last time you actually USED a floppy disc?

[Exile Machine]

Just built up a new computer system for the corporate office here at Exile Machine. We didn't scrimp or anything, got the best we could afford to keep the business humming along smoothly. As I was putting it together (I'm an Electrical Engineer so the electronics work --what little there is of it-- falls squarely on my shoulders) I noticed that the power supply, a top of the line modular Corsair unit, came with not one but TWO floppy disc power adapters. I thought that was strange, I was pretty sure the floppy died as a mainstream computer peripheral about six years ago.

Which leads me to the subject of this poll. When was the last time you actually used (used being defined as read data from or wrote data to) a floppy disc, of any size.

-Mark

[Barbarossa]

Where is the pole (poll)?

It was around 2003 for me.
I just found my old Iomega Zip Drive last weekend.

[Ricky-Ray]

Actually one of my attorney's here at work was still transporting their documents back and forth from here to to their home computer via floppy. Until his floppy died a few months back and I had to a recovery for him.

I was able to convert him to using USB flash drives afterwards.

[DaveInOroValley]

what's a floppy disc?

I remember when Apple was ridiculed over their decision to drop the 1.44MB floppy from their hardware.

[nick]

Those floppy disk power adapters can be used for many other (although mostly obsolete, as well) devices. Like the Zip Drive Barbarossa found.

I used a floppy maybe 2-3 years ago, when installing Windows 2003 on a newer server that it had no storage drivers for. I mostly use USB drives for that, but I already had the floppy with the drivers, and the server had a floppy drive, so why not.

[Merc1138]

Just built up a new computer system for the corporate office here at Exile Machine. We didn't scrimp or anything, got the best we could afford to keep the business humming along smoothly. As I was putting it together (I'm an Electrical Engineer so the electronics work --what little there is of it-- falls squarely on my shoulders) I noticed that the power supply, a top of the line modular Corsair unit, came with not one but TWO floppy disc power adapters. I thought that was strange, I was pretty sure the floppy died as a mainstream computer peripheral about six years ago.

Which leads me to the subject of this poll. When was the last time you actually used (used being defined as read data from or wrote data to) a floppy disc, of any size.

-Mark

Floppy disk 4 pin power connectors aren't just used for floppy drives. There are a lot of devices that use them because they're smaller than the 4 pin molex HDD connectors. It would be absolutely crap to buy a corsair AX1200 and then find out that you don't have a 4 pin floppy connector to power a fan controller or something(soundcard, card reader, LCD panel, water pump, etc.)

As far as actually using a floppy drive for anything... 2004 maybe? And it would have been to flash a bios on something.

[dem0critus]

Floppy disk 4 pin power connectors aren't just used for floppy drives. There are a lot of devices that use them because they're smaller than the 4 pin molex HDD connectors. It would be absolutely crap to buy a corsair AX1200 and then find out that you don't have a 4 pin floppy connector to power a fan controller or something(soundcard, card reader, LCD panel, water pump, etc.)

This. I popped Oregon Trail in just yesterday :P

[JDay]

I noticed that the power supply, a top of the line modular Corsair unit, came with not one but TWO floppy disc power adapters. I thought that was strange, I was pretty sure the floppy died as a mainstream computer peripheral about six years ago.

Modular power supplies do not go in mainstream computers. They're used in servers, many of which are running legacy applications on legacy hardware. I.e. they'll have a floppy drive.

[dem0critus]

Modular power supplies do not go in mainstream computers. They're used in servers, many of which are running legacy applications on legacy hardware. I.e. they'll have a floppy drive.

I use a modular corsair ps, and have been using modular power supplies for a while in my personal box.. I know tons of people that use them to cut down on the clutter in their case.

[JDay]

I use a modular corsair ps, and have been using modular power supplies for a while in my personal box.. I know tons of people that use them to cut down on the clutter in their case.

My mistake, was thinking of hot-swap. Was up all night playing Diablo 3 and my brain is still booting up.

[dem0critus]

My mistake, was thinking of hot-swap. Was up all night playing Diablo 3 and my brain is still booting up.

I'm guilty of this as well, my friend. D3 will certainly do that to you.

[DVSmith]

Had to bring up an old system a few years back to get a file off of a floppy. Was amazed it worked!

[tdyoung1958]

LOL, I have external 5.25 and 3.5 drives that are USB powered that I still use.

[cebuvfr]

Tha last time i used one was a decade ago!

[smird]

Fairly often, up until recently I had a cnc machine. The only way to get the G-code onto it was floppy.