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Originally Posted by Katsunami
You seem to be fond of expressions like that.
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I see quite a lot of it in the internet.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Is it? Then please go and find me a way to transfer some files from a 5.25 inch floppy drive. And I don't mean "In 6 weeks", or "Send your disk to $Location" or something, but a way I can employ within the hour; like right now. In the very least, tomorrow.
Easy. Right. Then try it with an 8 inch disk.
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Failing to copy stuff over to new media as it comes out is not a technology problem, it's a user problem. And it cannot be solved by technology.
As the saying goes, if you build an idiot proof device, the universe will invent a better idiot.
I still have prgrams I wrote nearly 20 years ago, for DOS. And you know what? They still work, on my 64 bit Windows 7 machine. Yeah, I have to use an emulator, but there are multiple emulators available, mostly for free. There are versions of DOS
still in active development.