Sony To End Floppy Manufacturing

[B00tDisk]

I can't think of the last PC I built with a floppy drive.  Maybe...eight? years ago?  

All my boot disks now are CDs or USB drives.

And yet, still, I have stacks of the fucking things lying around here!

[B00tDisk]

If you don't have any classic systems, none whatsoever. If you actually do own some original amiga machines still, then they do have their occasional use, especially if your HD goes west.

That said, the last time I had a HD boot issue like that, I put the offending HD into a PC, fired up winuae and corrected it from there. Not a floppy in sight.

Most classic systems now have some sort of solid state storage kludged to 'em, though.

[B00tDisk]

Where do you get this kind of rubbish....

I have enough floppies to last till the day I die. Why on earth would you want to muck a classic machine by infecting it with such modern junk. Honestly. The Amiga was never designed this way, and the floppy works just fine. Those that kludge as you call it, what ever that means, just degrade the true Amiga experience. Dunno why you just don`t get an emulator and be done with it.

And what do mass storage devices have to do with it.. We were talking about the threat to the Amiga from not having removable storage media in the form of floppies. So yes go stock up on your floppies and keep your current floppies safe. All my originals still work so really I don`t see the problem.

AUI decrunching to DF0: All done... Classic.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

Do you have some kind of brain injury or is my sarcasm detector on the blink?