On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:40:07PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/07/08 14:18, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > >On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>After that, use a cleaning disk to clean the heads of the floppy drive... > > > >I find I have to do this a lot, these days. Floppy drives don't get > >used much, so they get packed full of dust. > > I haven't had (nor have I needed) a floppy drive in my machine since > 2003.
I have three boxes: 486 with floppy and Zip P-II with floppy, Zip, and USB Athlon64 with Zip and USB, and CD/DVD burner. I use the Zip more than floppies if I'm doing a sneaker-net during a box rebuild but other than that I use scp. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
