I think most people in certain countries still use floppy drive right now. But I will never ever use it again. The speed is too slow and the disk space is..
Haha, I remember using those. It's been a looong time though. Nowadays I can't be bothered with diskettes anymore.
Hehe, I still have a boot disk which I've used a few days ago to have an old AMD Duron computer started. I don't have a floppy drive on my desktop/laptop though.
I don't use it anymore for a long time as even my PC doesn't have a floppy drive. I prefer to use USB flash drive as it's pretty cheap nowadays where I got a kingston 1GB for merely RM27(around USD8) which is really convenient to take around and store so much things in it.
Thanks for reminding us about the good old diskette. We have all conveniently forgotten about it. Now we are married to the flash drive Nowadays the PC doesn't come with the diskette drive
I only use the Flash Drives and CD-R's. They're pretty cheap I got a memorex 512mb for about 5 bucks on sale...at Compusa! Yay!
Not quite 50 years ago. 42 years ago I took my first computer training — a programming course in a now-obsolete program called Michigan Algorithm Decoder (MAD). Our media storage then was on those large, cumbersome, slow, reel-to-reel tapes! My, how times have changed. Our computers at that time took up a large roomful of reel-to-reel tape drives, yet they couldn't do a fraction of the computing that my plain old desktop does today. And we programmed them with big stacks of punch cards!