[AccessD] OT:Floppy Disk Drives

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 13:31:49 CST 2009


John,

You can buy external ones.  I have an external floppy disk drive with a USB
connection which plugs into my laptop's usb but could equally be a USB port
on a PC.
Not expensive but I would say buy it now because sourcing it in the future
my become more difficult.

But in the scenario you quote, why doesn't he write it on his PC.  Print it
to a pseudo print driver as a PDF file, send that to them via email or a
website and they carry on from there.

Max


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: 06 February 2009 19:25
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: I'm old

I was upgrading a computer for a member of my church earlier this week.  He
is starting to write for 
a newsletter that he wrote for back in the 90s, and he used to send them the
articles on Floppy. 
Now they want it on CD.  The CD player in his machine wouldn't write, and he
did not have a clue how 
to use one, so I had to install one that would write and show him how to get
XP to write files to it.

It is getting pretty tough to even find floppy disks any more, and new
systems don't come with the 
drives.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Heenan, Lambert wrote:
> The answer for Windoze XP is a resounding "No" I suspect. Could be wrong
of course, but I'm sitting in front of a machine that does have a floppy
drive (though I've never used it for anything), and the 'Change Drive Letter
and Paths' dialog does not offer me drive A or B to choose from. That's
probably because having a floppy, which is A, drive B is reserved for when
you do something like
> 
> Copy a:*.* b:
> 
> Which will result in A having a schizophrenic interlude.
> 
> I just checked this out by disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS. After
rebooting, a peek ad the drive management screen reveals...
> 
> Roll of drums...
> 
> A and B are still not available. So MS has just decided that floppy drives
are an essential legacy support item. :-)
> 
> Lambert

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