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I Need A Floppy Drive

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by alex4946

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I use a Sony Digigal Mavrica Camera which uses Floppy Discs as the medium for storing the pictures.

Without a Floppy Drive to transfer my pics onto my computer I would have to throw away my $750 dollar Sony Digital Camera.

Tell the fat man whostarted this discussion that if he doesn't like Floppy Drives that is fine with me but tell him to butt off and go play with his marbles ..... And leave the rest of the world alone !!!!!1

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by chipw

So go out and buy a $15 floppy drive and install it in your computer. If that's too difficult a task for you then pay someone to do it. Or through away you $750 camera and buy a $250 camera which doesn't use floppies, and stores more pics on the memory card.

by Member 28765817

the suggestion to get rid of your camera is the right one. or buy that cheap dfloppy drive. and are you using a mac? they sell nice usb floppy drives for about $100, or you can buy them for less from online sellers. man, i would never buy anything that required a floppy.

by timthetoolman

A floppy to transfer data from your camera?

I'll bet you use a special floppy into which you insert the memory stick and then read the data from it in a PC's floppy drive as though it was a real floppy?

You almost certainly dont need to do that. I'll also bet that your camera came with a serial cable that will happily plug into one of the COM ports on your PC.

Whats the problem with floppy drives anyway?

by chipw

Actually, there are digital cameras that do use a standard floppy for image storage. Here at work one of the salesmen has one. Take the floppy out, pop it into the pc and copy the images to the hard drive, view them on the floppy, whatever. It is a standard floppy though. (He is out of town so I can't tell you the brand right now).

by polo

Since couple years ago I started hearing that floppy is obslete. I really can't agree with that. Floppy disks are affortable, protable, and still very accessable. For a college setting, we don't want our students to spend 10-12 dollar for a ZIP justto put their term paper on--oh, sorry, you need to spend 20-24 bucks if you need a back up.

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