Re: Internal Floppy Drive

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:38:31 +0000, Raggy <>
wrote:

>I have 5 unused floppy drives if interested 2 black, 2 silver & 1 beige.

I would be interested in the beige and black ones, as I'm one of the
insane according to Conor's classification. This is after the OP is
sorted, of course.

Multithreaded wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:38:31 +0000, Raggy <>
> wrote:
>
>> I have 5 unused floppy drives if interested 2 black, 2 silver & 1 beige.
>
> I would be interested in the beige and black ones, as I'm one of the
> insane according to Conor's classification. This is after the OP is
> sorted, of course.

What gets my goat is that the word insane gets thrown around these days
and applied to all sorts of things which really takes away from the true
meaning of the word.

Of course you are not insane to wish to purchase a floppy disc drive
just a bit old fashioned and eccentric.

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:09:41 +0000
Nick Le Lievre <> wrote:

> Of course you are not insane to wish to purchase a floppy disc drive
> just a bit old fashioned and eccentric.

Or using it for legacy equipment like CAM, a sequencer etc. that might
be expensive or impossible to replace.

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:09:41 +0000, Nick Le Lievre
<> wrote:

>What gets my goat is that the word insane gets thrown around these days
>and applied to all sorts of things which really takes away from the true
>meaning of the word.

I take mental health issues extremely seriously, Nick, and certainly
didn't mean to offend your sensibilities in this area. I was trying to
be gently ironic in response to Conor's post.

>Of course you are not insane to wish to purchase a floppy disc drive
>just a bit old fashioned and eccentric.

My sister calls me eccentric, and I certainly like some old fashioned
things, but also believe that floppy disk drives have their uses, the
running of up to the minute memory diagnostic programs being among
them. It seems "crazy" to me to burn a whole CD just to run a 176KB
standalone program like Memtest86+. I also can't be bothered fiddling
around with booting off a thumb drive - that tends to confuse just
about every Asus BIOS I have in my PC collection, mucking up the boot
order of the bootable devices. (Yes, I know about pressing F12, but
still find the floppy more convenient.)

/ Sits back and awaits the inevitable flamefest ...

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:05:32 -0800, "nobody >"
<> wrote:

>I picked up a 150+ pile of 3.5's at an estate sale with old programming
>libraries, plus a "transfer of copyright" from the estate manager. I'm
>barely literate in C (+,++), but I know there's gems in there.

I haven't bought an actual floppy disk in many years, having collected
many over the ages since 1994. Does any firm out there still sell new
ones? Are they still being manufactured? I never thought to ask these
questions before, so it's off to Google with me now, to find out.

>I have a "NIB" Canon "Combo Floppy" (both 3.5" and 5.25" in a single
>5'25" bay) that's going into my new build machine.

Do you have any pics and details of this device? I didn't know such a
beast existed. If you have a pic on a webpage, please post the link
under here.

In article <>, Multithreaded
<> writes

>Do you have any pics and details of this device? I didn't know such a
>beast existed. If you have a pic on a webpage, please post the link
>under here.

I had one for many years, a good drive. It was usually my last resort
if I had an iffy disk.

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache...cledgoods.com/
item/8876.aspx+canon+dual+floppy+drive&cd=1&hl=en&ct=cl nk&gl=uk

http://bit.ly/baKezj

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