Do you spec machines with floppies?

re: Do you spec machines with floppies?

Biden — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:28:49 GMT

I never spec them in anything. But I do carry a USB Floppy in my truck in the event that I may need it. Last time I used was in setting up an F6 disk for an SBS 2003 RAID config. Besides that I haven't used one in what seems like years.

re: Do you spec machines with floppies?

Evan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:11:00 GMT

I do still try and get floppy drives in server computers. I avoid them in spec'ing desktop computers.

I've had a lot of good luck with <chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/.../vfd.html> for my "floppy drive" needs. With something like the "licensing disks" you mention, I'd pull and image of them on a machine w/ a floppy, then use VFD to mount them up on whatever computers need them. I normally disk-image any floppies anyway, so this makes working with them a breeze.

re: Do you spec machines with floppies?

Richard — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:46:03 GMT

We use Dell small form-factor PCs and they have a slot for a drive; normally we either get them with no drive or a DVD-ROM, but we do have some floppy drives that fit in those slots so we can put a floppy in in the rare cases we need one.

You can also get USB floppy drives and they're bootable on modern PCs (if it can boot from a USB key, it can boot from a USB floppy).

re: Do you spec machines with floppies?

Axel Larson — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:47:32 GMT

My solution was to buy one USB-connected floppy. I got a 2x speed Sony drive that I really like. So far it meets my needs.