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Re: file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by tinstaafl … your system is that old it's still using floppies, I'd strongly suggest getting at least a CD…. 1 cd will hold somewhere between 400 and 600 floppies worth of info. Also there's the issue of…the medium life. Even if you can still buy floppies off the shelf they were probably made several years …be slower, but at greatly faster speeds than floppies Re: A farewell to floppies 13 Years Ago by rubberman [QUOTE=sergent;1537437]What is a floppy?[/QUOTE] A hat with a big brim? :-) I still have a couple of systems (rarely used/booted) that have floppies, and I have a bunch of data (programs - some major R&D work) on floppies I REALLY need to extract before they become landfill... Re: file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by chukeej … to transfer is 3,214 kb. I am still using floppies with my WinXP pc. Although I do not have a… an external one which I purchased. I like to use floppies because I can delete and reuse them whenever I no… A farewell to floppies 14 Years Ago by GuyClapperton … support calls from people who have been backing up onto floppies religiously for years. They'll be concerned and you can… file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by chukeej WinXP how to transfer large file to several (1.4mb) floppies Re: file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by stormal1 You'll need to split it up into >1.4mb chunks using any freeware file splitter. Data residing on floppies is also easily corrupted. I recommend that you transfer it to a usb flash drive to save yourself a lot of labor. Re: file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by caperjack > > I like to use floppies because I can delete and reuse them whenever I no longer need the info. a cd burner using cd-rw disk will work the same , cd-rw are also erasable , and you can edit file and save the changes ,when using CD-RW disks . but i agree a usb thumb drive will be the best and cheapest way to go Floppies & airport x-rays 18 Years Ago by webecedarian Is this the right sub-forum for this? I'm wondering, is there a definitive answer these days about whether the x-rays at airport screenings damage floppy disks? Last time I flew, I just asked for them to be hand-searched instead, but you never know if those guys will give you a hard time. ;) Re: A farewell to floppies 13 Years Ago by sergent What is a floppy? Re: A farewell to floppies 13 Years Ago by jingda you guys are a funny race. You replied to a thread one year later Re: A farewell to floppies 13 Years Ago by rubberman Sometimes, you see something that grabs you, and you just have to respond. A year later? So? :-) Re: A farewell to floppies 13 Years Ago by jingda How about replying to a thread 7 years ago? Do you still use floppy rubberman Re: A farewell to floppies 13 Years Ago by rubberman Have them, and drives on a couple of old workstations I keep around for "historical" purposes - a Gateway 486 (w/ EISA bus and SCSI array) and a Dell P2-450. My current laptops and workstation don't have floppy drives. I use micro sd cards in a USB carrier instead. A 2GB chip is about $5USD, and a 4GB one is almost as cheap... :-) So, in … Re: A farewell to floppies 13 Years Ago by rubberman FWIW, the Gateway 486 EISA bus system is what I used to develop a clean-room implementation of TCP/IP for the QNX 2 real-time operating system back in the early 90's. That was before the BSD TCP stack was released into the wild (open sourced). We were building systems to run the US Navy's RAMP (Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts) project, and … Re: A farewell to floppies 12 Years Ago by usahomegoods Here's bidding adieu to floppy disks.;) Re: A farewell to floppies 12 Years Ago by darrylpatterson Farewell to thee, oh beloved 3 1/2 inch floppy drive. I shall remember using you to diligently store my Diablo saved games. Re: file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by pritaeas Try WinRar. Re: file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by Reverend Jim What's a floppy? Seriously, you can try [FFSJ](http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~hoangle/filesj/#Features). It's free. Re: file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by BigPaw There may be more helpful options if you would like to tell us how big the large file is, and what you are going to do with the large file? You don't have to tell us what the large file is. Re: file transfer to floppies 11 Years Ago by CimmerianX Go buy a 4.99 1GB USB. You'll never use a floppy again. I only need the occasional floppy when loading up an older Windows image and need to load 3rd party drivers during setup. Major XP Problem: Error Loading Operating System... 19 Years Ago by Syco4369 … use Windows XP Home Edition boot floppies that they have. Well, I got the boot floppies from them (all 6 of them… another sata recognition problem 18 Years Ago by figment_1 … it to report the drivers were not found on the floppies (jesus they must be). I then decided to try to… maxblast and downloaded maxblast 4 to floppy. I booted the floppies and saw the option to make my sata drive have… Q&A 14 Years Ago by romi65 … data from our old Q&A program (the floppies are really floppies) to one that will be compatible with OS post… Re: Is Buslink an okay brand for an A-drive? 9 Years Ago by rubberman … R&D code off of floppies and all of my old systems that have floppies haven't been fired up for… FreeDOS = retarded 20 Years Ago by jabberwock486 … installation version. it has 3 images to make 3 install floppies. well they do work and all but installation is completely… Floppy Drive Problem... 20 Years Ago by mokkema … drive, yet everytime I try to get one of my floppies to work, they never do! It just keeps telling me… XP Startup Loop 19 Years Ago by tattooed … XP Boot disk program from their site (this creates 6 floppies that you load). Nothing. I do NOT have a XP… 'A disk read error occurred' 19 Years Ago by sillsj … the drive to be perfectly fine when booting from their floppies. It did show a severe problem with the old deskstar… Lotus 1-2-3 will no longer launch. 19 Years Ago by mcranch … make it behave this way. The original program is on floppies and uses an expander from 1992 or 1993. Anyone else… Re: Lotus 1-2-3 will no longer launch. 19 Years Ago by mcranch … don't know it. I have gone back to original floppies and installed on my upgraded G-3. But when I…