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Joshmcmillan

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Lol 4 years ago my main rig was a Compaq 486!!
 
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I had a Mac 8.1 (if memory serves me correctly) on loan from a friend as my first PC. It owned. You could type actual words on it! :eek:

IT PRINTED THINGS!!
 
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i hate floppy's when u need one to work you have to go through like 100 different disks now to find one that will actually work not to mention it seems all newer floppy drives die in a matter of months

un like agp vs pci express the floppy was pzzzowned by optical disks and flash media
 
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All my floppy's work, and this drive is like at least 7 years old...

It's a nice quick way to take your essays/other work to school.
 
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I have mounted a 3.5" 1998 NEC white FDD on my main PC, in perfect conditions, and I have here sitting at my left a 5.25" 1987 FDD wich last time I checked by the year 2000 still worked, shame that I've lost all the remaining disks for it through the years...
 
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Casheti said:
All my floppy's work, and this drive is like at least 7 years old...

It's a nice quick way to take your essays/other work to school.
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Our school removed all the computers with floppy disks, so everyone had to go out and buy USB flash drives.
 
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t_ski said:
Our school removed all the computers with floppy disks, so everyone had to go out and buy USB flash drives.
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That is REALLY sad. Seriously, dont have a flash drive I use floppys occasionally, but I stopped after the data got corrupted...
 
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t_ski said:
Our school removed all the computers with floppy disks, so everyone had to go out and buy USB flash drives.
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Our school kinda did that too... or at least the students did, people would make what I call "thermite floppies." Basically, nail polish + match heads + spinning disk = MAJOR PWNAGE OF FLOPPIES!!!

Recipe sound familiar? Thats right... the anarchists cookbook...
 
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PVTCaboose1337 said:
Our school kinda did that too... or at least the students did, people would make what I call "thermite floppies." Basically, nail polish + match heads + spinning disk = MAJOR PWNAGE OF FLOPPIES!!!

Recipe sound familiar? Thats right... the anarchists cookbook...
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I hate how school kids vandalise PC's. What are they trying to prove?
 
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You know, the school students are so dumb, they dont know that an audio cable is needed in order for the monitor speakers to work. They call me a show off when I sucessfully overclock a school system >_> from 2.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz lol.
 
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At my school they're asking me to overclock three of them. One MSI P6N-SLI-F1 & e4300 are at 2.7GHz, another one (the same setup) I haven't started on yet, and the third is an Asus P5N32-SLI & e6700 thatI'm working on right now - so far from 2.66 to 3.126GHz. :D
 
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tkpenalty said:
You know, the school students are so dumb, they dont know that an audio cable is needed in order for the monitor speakers to work. They call me a show off when I sucessfully overclock a school system >_> from 2.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz lol.
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Lol...all the BIOS's in my school are locked with an admin password. I wanted to OC loads of them and kill them but they locked the f*cking BIOS :(
 
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I just love the thing because in all it's simplicity it's still one of the only things that can bring you back from the brink of death... it's like if nature made computer parts, it would make floppy drives..lol.. one of the few things that through constant changes has always remaind reliable and rock steady.. i can bounce mine off the tile floor and it still works lol.. try that with a cd/dvd lol.. I love my floppy.. i will never throw it away lol.. it has saved me more times than stop lights.. lol :toast:
 
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My commodore 64 has an external 5.25 floppy drive, and I use it occasionaly. Does that count?
 
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lol, it can if u want it too.
 
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All these stories about floppy drives etc.. are becoming amusing/interesting. Keep'em up!
 
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LOL Death to floppy drives Yarr!!
 
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anyone know how to get my 5 1/4" drive to work along with my 3 1/2? It doesn't get recognized in my bios (see system specs).

I have windows 3.0 on 5.25...
 
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Mediocre said:
anyone know how to get my 5 1/4" drive to work along with my 3 1/2? It doesn't get recognized in my bios (see system specs).
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It's not autoconfiguring. You need to set it up in the BIOS. Does your BIOS only have settings for one device?

I have windows 3.0 on 5.25...
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You also have our pity... :(
 
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It seems to only have settings for one device. But when I cant get the light to go on or the drive to boot up in xp.

I just want to know if I can run windows 3.0 in dos mode :p
 
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I think maybe only if you disconnected the 3.5" drive, then installed it onto another drive (the installer won't see the XP drive as it probably has either NTFS or FAT32 on it, both of which came after Windows 3.0 (Win95C to be exact)).
 
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Casheti said:
Lol...all the BIOS's in my school are locked with an admin password. I wanted to OC loads of them and kill them but they locked the f*cking BIOS :(
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Yeah... I kinda just pull out the bios batteries... I set a new PW... :rolleyes:
 
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Some boards have a "Clear Password" jumper on them
 
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