Rocker said:But put yourself in this position :
You have a CD - ROM, no Floppy Drive.
Your CD - ROM packs up and kills itself. You want to change the OS on your comp to something like ... Linux. What do you do? You're helpless, unless you spend another £20 on a new CD - ROM.
OR
You have a Floppy Drive, and you can use Floppies to Install Linux. Problem solved.
Rocker said:Ok, the situation I created is crap, but the point stays the same. Floppy Disks and Floppy Drives are still a good back up if something goes wrong with your CD - ROM. Plus, with some of the Data burning programs around, some git decided it would be fun to make CD's un rewritable if using their program once something has already been put on it:
Rocker said:You want to put a picture on another comp that isn't connected to the net. Solution? Shove it on a CD and load it up from there. No, wait, you use of those Spawn of Satan data burning programs. Wahey! You've just wasted a 700MB CD by putting a 50kb picture on it. Why not just use a floppy?
Lord Kalthorn said:CD-ROMs very rarely pack up; and if they did it would be a blessing not to install Linux! And you're not helpless becuase you have Windows still - as always holding up the Computer where Linux failed.
Lol - Windows Burning program does not do that - Nero does not do that - why does it matter? Anyway; we shouldn't be talking about CDs because the Computers of the Future without Floppy Drives, and lets face it, will have DVDs and DVD-Writers. Why talk about OLD Computers that do have Floppy Drives already when we're talking about a new thing where DVD-Writers are commonplace.
Don't bring your bad experiences onto something about this! CD Writing programs don't destroy CDs. And most people use Windows or Nero which don't do this unless there's something wrong with the CD/DVD-Writer.