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| What happend to 2.88MB Floppy Disk's For a while there it seemed that they made 2.88MB Floppy Drives yet stopped and went back to 1.44MB Floppy Disks. 2.88MB Floppy's hold twice as much data as a 1.44MB Floppy. Why didn't the 2.88MB Floppy's replace the 1.44MB Floppy's??? My dad had a 2.88MB Floppy Drive and yet he could never find any 2.88MB Floppy Disks but 1.44MB Floppy Disks only. Did they even make any 2.88MB Floppy Disks at all to go along with the 2.88MB Floppy Drive??? |
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 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
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Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2 | Dead format.
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 KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
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Earth Orbit
kudos:7 | reply to floydb1982
I think you're realize this more than a decade too late... |
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| reply to floydb1982
Basically what happened to 2.88 floppy drives was zip disks (100mb) and more importantly CD-R's. (650 to 750mb)
Cd-r's and DVD-r's are on the way out because of high speed internet (dropbox etc) and usb flash drives.
The only time I burn anything anymore is if the machine I'm working on cannot boot off of a usb stick or I'm making an hd image or I'm burning an iso. |
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 DC DSLThere's a reason I'm Command.Premium
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| said by Aranarth:The only time I burn anything anymore is if the machine I'm working on cannot boot off of a usb stick or I'm making an hd image or I'm burning an iso.
I only burn for protected/read-only distribution, point-in-time/audit backups, or archiving.
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| reply to floydb1982
At the time, 1.44 MB floppy drives cost $20 or less. 2.88 MB floppy drives cost around $100. This created the chicken and egg scenario where there were not enough drives in the field to justify making the disks in large (and low-cost) quantity. Thus the drives AND the disks were priced absurdly and failed miserably in the marketplace. Then Iomega came out with the Zip drive 100 MB and the Jazz drive (1GB).
Then another bit of magic came along... Cheap PC networking. Sneakernet was no longer required. 
Make yourself a note to ask a similar question about Intel's Thunderbolt 10 years from now. They have it and the cables it requires priced at a similarly absurd price point. I forsee it failing also.  |
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DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
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said by Aranarth:Cd-r's and DVD-r's are on the way out because of high speed internet (dropbox etc) and usb flash drives.
That presumes everyone has high speed internet, which is not true. With bandwidth caps, using "the cloud" is counter-intuitive. Just as well to back to a USB HD.
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| I'm not presuming anything, this is actually what is happening.
(You can assume people who are using dropbox have high speed internet of course.)
Otherwise as I mentioned people are using USB flash drives and yes some of them are using external hd's if they need more space.
I suppose one additional thing that is putting cd-rs and dvd-r in the dust bin of history is literally waste. Flash drives can be used and reused many more times and much more reliably and cost effectively than rd-rw and dvd-rw disks. |
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DC DSLThere's a reason I'm Command.Premium
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| said by Aranarth:I suppose one additional thing that is putting cd-rs and dvd-r in the dust bin of history is literally waste. Flash drives can be used and reused many more times and much more reliably and cost effectively than rd-rw and dvd-rw disks.
Unfortunately, flash is NOT acceptable as backup for applications requiring permanently unmodifiable "true" copies of data. Applications subject to HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and a slew of other regulated activities must use backup that cannot be altered once laid down and removed from the host. So, until a new mainstream "write-once" storage technology emerges, recordable optical and even tape will persist.
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Detroit, MI
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| reply to floydb1982
Price is what happened.
Later they came out with 120mb floppies around the time Zip Disks came out. The price of blank media was around $30 - $40 per disk for both. Compare that to the price of 10 cents per disk when it came to CD-R blank media which came out at that time as well and has more capacity, you have a no brainer on what consumers chose.
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DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
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| reply to Aranarth
said by Aranarth:I'm not presuming anything, this is actually what is happening. Dialup is alive and well and living in rural areas.
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Edgewater, FL | reply to HarryH3
said by HarryH3:At the time, 1.44 MB floppy drives cost $20 or less. 2.88 MB floppy drives cost around $100. This created the chicken and egg scenario where there were not enough drives in the field to justify making the disks in large (and low-cost) quantity. Thus the drives AND the disks were priced absurdly and failed miserably in the marketplace. Then Iomega came out with the Zip drive 100 MB and the Jazz drive (1GB).
If I remember correctly, you could reformat a 1.44 disk as a 2.88 disk, similar to how one reformatted a 720K 5.25" to 1.2MB 5.25". It was just a gamble on whether it would hold your data or not...
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 DustynPremium
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Ontario, CAN
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1 edit | reply to floydb1982
TIME WARP: »Looking to buy a 2.88MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive |
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 DrStrangeTechnically feasiblePremium
join:2001-07-23
West Hartford, CT
kudos:1 | reply to floydb1982
Re: What happened to 2.88MB Floppy Disks Nobody was interested.
I used 155MB mini CD-RWs formatted using DirectCD [UDF format, read/write]. A mini CD-RW in a jewel case is the same size as a 3.5" floppy. They were much more plentiful and much less expensive than 2.88MB floppies, Zips or SuperDisks [120 or 240MB floptical, looked like an overweight floppy]. |
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DustynPremium
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Ontario, CAN
kudos:10 | I still have my ZIP drives... and disks. I remember they also suffered from a thing called "The Click Of Death". Thankfully neither of my units were affected.
I had the external parallel port version which still works to this day... along with an internal drive. The last operating system that supported these pieces of hardware natively, was Windows XP 64-bit Edition. I retired them after Vista and onwards. I could not get the external version to work in any later OS.
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DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
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| said by Dustyn:I still have my ZIP drives...
I had both, as well. Long gone to computer recycling.
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| reply to floydb1982
Re: What happend to 2.88MB Floppy Disk's Have one 1.44Mb Floppy/Media Card disk on a server.... Used it as a floppy couple times to upgrade Bios... and to load disk controller driver during an OS install. That's the last time I ever used it as a floppy. Used as a Card Reader quite often, so I don't feel so bad....
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DustynPremium
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Ontario, CAN
kudos:10 | My computer doesn't have an internal 1.44MB floppy disk drive. However, I have an external USB drive in case I need it for some reason. It sees little to no use... but it's nice to have and easy to move around. The last computer I have that's still in use that actually has one built in is my Pentium 4 IBM ThinkCentre. If it were to break down, no biggie... I have like 10 spares sitting in a drawer.
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 OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Dustyn
Re: What happened to 2.88MB Floppy Disks Same here, I still have both my Zip drives (Parallel and IDE) as well as a 1GB SparQ drive. |
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I have an external SCSI Zip drive in my closet that was given to me a few years ago. The last time I tried it with my old Mac, it worked fine. I also have another one (external parallel I think) at work, boxed and shrink-wrapped.
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