The beginning of the end for stiffies

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:38 pm 0

swith wrote:
Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:
Chuffmeister wrote:I still have a very grubby diskette with 'ST-01' scribbled on it... a very treasured disk that one sigh ... memories.

Can anyone guess what that diskette contained?
Soundtracker samples.
Grot?

That disk made all the inital "classic" .MODs you insensitive clod!

Crystalhammers!
Amegas!
etc..!

swith · Post by **swith** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:40 pm 0

I still bet it was grot, disguised as samples

Duck Turkin · Post by **Duck Turkin** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:42 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:
Duck Turkin wrote:Good riddance to old, unreliable rubbish!
Hey man, they were more reliable than a Boots C15...

LOL, true, but that's not saying much is it?

Istar · Post by **Istar** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:43 pm 0

ST-01... hmmm... I'm guessing either a TOS boot disk, or the CP/M disk.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:43 pm 0

Hymn To Yezz! damn you! Hymn to Yezz..

*sob*

Chuffmeister · Post by **Chuffmeister** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:45 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:
swith wrote:
Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:
Chuffmeister wrote:I still have a very grubby diskette with 'ST-01' scribbled on it... a very treasured disk that one sigh ... memories.

Can anyone guess what that diskette contained?
Soundtracker samples.
Grot?
That disk made all the inital "classic" .MODs you insensitive clod!

Crystalhammers!
Amegas!
etc..!

Ah.. yes.. and the classic Sleepwalk module... melt.

It better not have grumble pix on it!

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:22 am 0

Not the old "the floppy is dead" line again

People have been proclaiming its death since the early 90s.

DTB · Post by **DTB** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:25 am 0

Good riddance

Hateful noisey clunky things

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:07 pm 0

You know what I think would sale?

USB sticks with a pre-setup bootable Linux on them.

Kinda as a easy emergancy OS.

Personaly, I only use floopydisks as boot devices, and usb seems a better option then dvd's.
That said, following instructions to make a bootable usb device normaly starts by saying "Make a bootable floopy"

guythp · Post by **guythp** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:32 pm 0

DTB wrote:Good riddance

Hateful noisey clunky things

Leave Amigas out of this!

sack · Post by **sack** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:33 pm 0

won't miss them for the PC, but methinks stocking up for the Amiga, archimedes and ST (if I get around to getting one) might be a good idea...

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:42 pm 0

sack wrote:

ST (if I get around to getting one)

If you do, get something that takes SIMMs, and fill it full. RAM discs are faster than even hard disks, and much quicker that floppies.

SadisticToaster · Post by **SadisticToaster** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:16 pm 0

So if disk's do finally go extinct , will A: and B: drives be freed up?

Neon360 · Post by **Neon360** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:53 pm 0

SadisticToaster wrote:So if disk's do finally go extinct , will A: and B: drives be freed up?

Good question. That would be weird...

"Please insert CD-R media into Drive A:"

rowan · Post by **rowan** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:57 pm 0

There are a couple of times I use a floppy and it's always my tool of choice
when a PC is totally fubar, it's less faffing about than burning CDs.

1) Various odd utilities for which I require a bootdisk. I can get around that
by making a boot CD but it's kind of hassley.
2) Loading 3rd party storage drivers during Windows setup. That's the real
sticking point for me. It has to be on a floppy unless you can be arsed to
try to slipstream the things onto a copy of the installation CD.