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Old 12-31-2012, 09:02 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
If you must have a floppy drive, get a USB one. Less than $20 from Amazon, and works fine. I have one for the increasingly rare occasions that I need to use floppy disks. Absolutely no point in wasting a drive bay for something that you're only going to use once in a blue moon!
I bought a generic USB floppy drive three years ago. I think I paid about $10-$12 for it. I needed to access an old diskette I found in the bottom of a drawer, and wanted to know what was on it. That was also the last time I had any use for it, and now sits in the drawer space formally occupied by the disk! It keeps company with a 'Zip drive' that hasn't seen any use for even longer. With the price of 128gb flash drives or memory cards going down so quickly and storage size going up just as fast, it may soon make even hard drives be relegated to that same drawer!

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