[AccessD] OT:Floppy Disk Drives

They want it on CD.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [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
>