Re-Format DOS Diskettes for XP?

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E said:
Yet it takes far longer to save one photo to floppy than many to CD... and
the floppy tends to be much less reliable. The floppy might not be dead
(except on the Mac,) but by now it really should be...
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E said:
Yet it takes far longer to save one photo to floppy than many to CD... and
the floppy tends to be much less reliable. The floppy might not be dead
(except on the Mac,) but by now it really should be...
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Sorry for the blank reply - stuff happens...

Ever need to transfer a small text file, executable or a network driver
from one PC to another that has no network access? Why waste a CDR for
that? Ever need to boot a machine that can't boot from CDROM?

Floppies are alive and well around here.

Steve
 
David said:
Sure CP/M ! 8080/8085 Assembly and Zenith Z100 platforms. I also worked with the NEC V20
chips for the 8088/8086. Not only were they twice the speed of the Intel chips but given
the correct Register Flag it would emulate the 8080/8085/Z80 CPU.

I even worked on a CP/M Lifeboat 2.2 weather computer than had 9 Z80 CPUs for processing
downloaded satellite weather information for my state's DoT. :-)

The reality Today (to place this discussion back On Topic) is that 720KB disks just don't
cut the mustard for storage in Today's computing environment.
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You're as old as I am then. Thanks, I feel much better now. My 10MHz V20
rocked! It even executed some supposed 286 code! I didn't get a lot of
chances to use CP/M but it was around. My first computer was Commodore
Vic-20 and I still have my first C-64 which still works perfectly.

I agree that 720K diskettes are goners but I still have plenty of uses
for 1.44M diskettes.

Steve
 
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