What happened to floppies
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wingcoax said:
Bolleau (said the gattox). I've just sent a great stack of them to a charity shop. I'll be lucky if I've got a hundred left!
I know some people who are still using DVDs, how antiquated!
I still use a mini-DV camcorder, but I've pledged that I will replace it with something in HD once I've run out of tapes AND got the cash spare. Should be by 2025 or thereabouts
Anyone remember the Domesday Project? Laserdisc readers hooked up to a BBC Master? Beats wikipedia, any day!
Anyway, floppies. No, not used one in about 7 or 8 years. I don't even use my USB flash drives much tbh.
I still use a mini-DV camcorder, but I've pledged that I will replace it with something in HD once I've run out of tapes AND got the cash spare. Should be by 2025 or thereabouts
Anyone remember the Domesday Project? Laserdisc readers hooked up to a BBC Master? Beats wikipedia, any day!
Anyway, floppies. No, not used one in about 7 or 8 years. I don't even use my USB flash drives much tbh.
I've got a 3.5 inch drive on my desktop and still have floppies - got WordPerfect for Windows on floppy. Haven't used any of them in years though - had to clear all the dust out of the drive recently.
Ah, I remember 5.25 drives as well and the days when a 486 was considered top notch.
And Windows 3.1 and thinking it was something marvellous and the very first time I sent an e-mail and wondering how the hell it worked!
Ah, I remember 5.25 drives as well and the days when a 486 was considered top notch.
And Windows 3.1 and thinking it was something marvellous and the very first time I sent an e-mail and wondering how the hell it worked!
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I do!
They are still quite common in theatres and radio studios, but I think they have been confined to this specialist use.
I don't know anyone outside the industry who still has one.
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Im sort of semi-retired, i onlt work part time now.
I work for a horticultural company, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the IT they were using.
There was still green screen monitors connected some sort of DEC minicomputer, dot matrix line printers in cabinets printing on fanfold A3 paper. HP Laserjet 2000 printers, which i was binning in 2003, and unbelievable system - the computer produces a delivery note which is given to the lorry drivers, the bottom copy comes back and ist then scanned back in, wtf !!! Nothing is sent electronically, everything is printed out and filed, vast masses of paper filing. The idea you can store things on the network and dont need the paper copy just hasnt dawned on most people here
The programs they use on this system are straight from the 1970's. Theres Windows PC's with green s creen terminal emulators on so they can talk to the pile of antiquity. Its just unbelievable someone is trying to run a company with a turnover of £25million on this pile of junk. They have about 4 main bits of software, and nothing talks to anything else. No form of data exchange goes on. The output from the order system has to be retyped into the production system. The products database has to be converted to excel and sucked into the mini, ditto the forecasting system has to converted to CSV and sucked into the Lotus system. Its unbelievable. Nothing can be found out easily, simple queries like 'when will my order be delivered' requires large amounts of time and obscure system knowledge to answer.
I work for a horticultural company, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the IT they were using.
There was still green screen monitors connected some sort of DEC minicomputer, dot matrix line printers in cabinets printing on fanfold A3 paper. HP Laserjet 2000 printers, which i was binning in 2003, and unbelievable system - the computer produces a delivery note which is given to the lorry drivers, the bottom copy comes back and ist then scanned back in, wtf !!! Nothing is sent electronically, everything is printed out and filed, vast masses of paper filing. The idea you can store things on the network and dont need the paper copy just hasnt dawned on most people here
The programs they use on this system are straight from the 1970's. Theres Windows PC's with green s creen terminal emulators on so they can talk to the pile of antiquity. Its just unbelievable someone is trying to run a company with a turnover of £25million on this pile of junk. They have about 4 main bits of software, and nothing talks to anything else. No form of data exchange goes on. The output from the order system has to be retyped into the production system. The products database has to be converted to excel and sucked into the mini, ditto the forecasting system has to converted to CSV and sucked into the Lotus system. Its unbelievable. Nothing can be found out easily, simple queries like 'when will my order be delivered' requires large amounts of time and obscure system knowledge to answer.
