Will floppy drives become extinct? (Up front: news, trends & analysis).Floppy disk drives floppy disk drive - disk drive have been the most widely used method of transferring data between computers since the dawn of the computer age, but they soon may go the way of the dinosaur dinosaur (dī`nəsôr) [Gr., = terrible lizard], extinct land reptile of the Mesozoic era. The dinosaurs, which were egg-laying animals, ranged in length from 2 1-2 ft (91 cm) to about 127 ft (39 m). . Dell Computer recently announced it would stop making floppy disk drives standard equipment on its higher-end desktop personal computers. The No. 2 computer maker said floppy drives See floppy disk. floppy drive - disk drive had been overtaken by technologies such as USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. flash memory, which offers greater storage capacity, and would become an option on its Dimension 8250 models. Other Dell models may lose the floppy 1. (programming, tool) Floppy - A Fortran coding convention checker. A later version can generate HTML. See also Flow. ffccc posted to comp.sources.misc volume 12. 2. floppy - floppy disk by year's end, depending on consumer response, said a Dell spokesman. Today, most computer programs are too large to run or store on a manageable number of floppy drives. Dell says its decision to eliminate the floppy drive came after focus groups indicated they were no longer necessary. Some customers said they could not even remember the last time they used a floppy. Apple Computer stopped putting floppy drives in Macintosh computers several years ago, but other leading firms including Hewlett-Packard still offer them. |
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