Got a Floppy Disk?

Advantages: Quick, Easy, Reliable, Small, Fits into any pocket or bag
Disadvantages: Faded out use lately

...I originally bought this external floppy drive a few years ago after the standard for laptops was not to have an inbuilt floppy drive already in them however at the time floppy disks were still in use from time to time. It doesn't mean that this can't be used for desktop computers that don't have internal floppy drives. Power ********* Usually when having an external device like an external hard drive or optical drive you would usually need more than one lead. It would usually be a cable for the power into a power socket in the wall and a separate cable to send and receive data between the device and the computer however with this external floppy drive it has completely changed. Now all that is need with this floppy drive is simply just one USB cable with a mini USB connected to the drive making it quick and easy to use when your...

burns2007 12.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Freecom Floppy disk drive 1.44 MB

Panasonic Floppy disk drive

Advantages: Very reliable
Disadvantages: none

...One of the best floppy disk drive makers in the business. I have never had any problems with this make of floppy disk drive since I have been using them. Have fitted this make of floppy disk drive in every machine I have built for my self and for my customers for around the last four years and don’t think I have had one returned to me that is not working. Have tried all the other makes of floppy disk drives and have had problems in one way or another with them some. The key to all good floppy disk drives is that the heads are regularly cleaned to keep them in good condition.....

robbailey 02.10.2000 · Read review
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Review of Floppy Drives

Whats a 3 1/2" floppy?

Advantages: Colourful
Disadvantages: Break too easily

...I would call these Imation 1.44Mb floppies. I recently brought these from my local Argos store in Hastings as my office equipment supplier said that i place my order too late for next day delivery. I came across these floppy disks in my catalouge near to the PC pages and said that all of the other packs of floppy disks have the same amount of space which is currently 1.44Mb of storage but these ones have colour co-ordination to them and the others have not. I asked the lady at the help desk and she said that the only thing about these ones is that colour coded ones are easier to identify so you wont need to bother about looking at the label ever again. OK i said i will take those please, Only to find out when i got back to the office there were 2 of each colour: Blue, Red, Yellow, Green and Lime. a 10 pack in all. So when i got...

Sexy_Young_God 17.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Imation Corp. Floppy disk 1.44 MB

A Floppy Floppy!

Advantages: Reliable, relatively cheap, well-known brand, good build quality
Disadvantages: Small capacity, not as reliable as some other forms of storage, slow

...~~~ Overview & Appearance ~~~ The MPF920 is a fairly unremarkable floppy disk drive produced by Sony to be mounted inside your trusty computer. The drive supports 3.5" diskettes up to a maximum capacity of 1.44MB. Measuring just over 3.5" x 4.5" x 1" (approx) the main body of the unit is composed of steel, with a beige fascia at the front. There is a small slot for inserting your diskette, a button to eject the diskette and a small green LED to indicate whether the drive is being read from or written to by your computer. The rear of the unit features a small 4-pin power connector and also a second set of smaller pins for connecting the drive to your motherboard by means of the supplied (sometimes!) lead. The drive features a selection of small holes along each side so that you can screw it securely into your PC case. Interestingly...

ben-lloyd 28.04.2005 (21.04.2009) · Read review
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Review of Sony MPF 920

Special Specialized Rockhopper Comp Disc 2007

Advantages: Top quality kit
Disadvantages: Nothing at all

...Being a mountain bike mad man I decided it was time to get a new bike. Shopping around for a bike these days gets complicated with the huge variety of bikes you can buy and for a wide price range. Me being me I like the hard tail mountain bikes. That's a bike without rear suspension. If your on recreational cycling or after some sport competition then a hard tail is a good choice for a reasonable choice. THE BIKE HOW MUCH and CHOOSING IT Anyways, after much decision making I finally went for the Specialised Rockhopper Comp Disc 2007 bike. At £749 this for me is actually not a bad price bearing in mind you can get bikes for £4000 plus. It was a little more than I wanted to spend but its worth it for that little extra upgrade over the model below. I went for the Rockhopper because I know it has a good all round reputation as...

skrg28 23.03.2007 · Read review
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Floppy Drive 120Mb???

Advantages: Faster, greater capacity
Disadvantages: Not quite as cheap as traditional drives

...After many years of dealing with computers I must say very loudly TRADITIONAL FLOPPY DRIVES ARE DEAD! I did a couple of months ago purchase all the parts for a new PC witch I assembled myself and I must say that the experience I have had with floppy drives is that they are slow, unreliable and the traditional floppy disks are about the most fragile media you can get. I purchased one of these traditional 1.44Mb drives to begin with not thinking too much about it. It was a MITSUMI drive costing about £10. I took it home and put it in my new super fast pc and amazingly the little monster thing didn't appear to work... so I took it back and whilst I was at the store I noticed one of those newfangled LS120 drives from Panasonic and it stores a huge 120Mb on each of the new type of media and it is backwards compatible. So for £70 I took...

XJSGAV 02.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Floppy Drives

3M 1.44Mb Floppy Disks. Yes thats another one.

Advantages: Small and compact
Disadvantages: Breakable and horrible colour

...Hiya sorry about the boredom about these floppy disks first the imation 3 1/2" floppu disks and now its those pesky 3M's. Right i am sorry to say that my other batch of imation floppy disks have run out. So i phoned my supplier and i was informed by the lovely lady called charlie that they had run out. So she did suggest i try the new 3M pack of 10 floppies. Right onto the product in hand: These are the worst floppy disks i have ever purchased, the colour black is the worst ever but i must agree that floppies are the same as any other floppies. These floppy disks are not pre-formatted so you would need to format them yourself which is really time consuming, especially if you have a really important report due in the next day for the bank as i did. These floppies are not as good as the Imation series as all of these disks are...

Sexy_Young_God 22.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of 3M Floppy disk 1.44 MB

Plays any disc

Advantages: With multi-region feature
Disadvantages: None

...Philips DVP3310 When my old DVD player died, I wanted an immediate replacement for it since there are DVDs that I really love to watch over and over like Titanic, Somewhere in Time and Face-Off. My toddler also loves to watch ?Tom and Jerry Show? almost every morning. I?m not really that keen on DVD player?s technicalities so I really didn?t know what to look for in a DVD player. I was just used to plug, play and watch on my old DVD player. Some of my DVDs are not playable on my former player. Somebody told me that I needed to get a multi-region DVD player that plays all kinds of discs. I started my internet search on a multi-region DVD player and I ended up ordering Phillips DVP3310 and paid £45 for it. The delivery was quick. I ordered it Monday and it arrived Thursday morning. In the box *Phillips DVP3310 DVD...

browndoll 26.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Philips DVP3310

WHAT A FLOP

Advantages: cheap, small, quick to format
Disadvantages: not enough capacity, not very durable

...It is becoming apparent that the floppy disk will in time become a thing of the past. As the latest PC's get faster and faster, they seem somewhat slowed down and held back by the presence of the floppy disk. How many of you have copied files to floppy and waited an eternity for them to finish? The fact of the matter is that they are too slow and we need to think about developing an alternative. Could this be the mini disk?, or even a cheap, small removable disk drive?, who knows? I can remember the days when PC's came with 250mb or less Hard Disks. At the time, you probably thought that it was more than enough storage space for your requirements, but as technology has moved on, you find that Hard Disks of that capacity would be rendered 'useless' for the needs of today. At the same time there was the floppy drive, which by...

mdstone 26.07.2001 (06.08.2001) · Read review
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CRACKING 2 - DISC DVD, GROMIT!

Advantages: This is pure comedy escapism for all the family!
Disadvantages: Absolutely none, unless you don't like laughing!

...Works to help him make a full-length film starring his beloved Wallace & Gromit. The answer from DreamWorks was a resounding 'YES!' and thus 'The Curse of the Were-Rabbit' was created. The film came out in 2005 and has only just been released on DVD. To celebrate, the manufacturers have released the film as part of a 2 disc DVD special edition. Here is what you can expect to get: DISC ONE ~~THE FILM ~~ I give this film 5 stars. I don't want to spoil too much of the plot, because I didn't know very much about the storyline before I watched it, so it was a pleasant surprise. All I will tell you is that Wallace & Gromit's village has been over-run by rabbits and our heroes now work in pest control, calling themselves 'Anti-Pesto', if you can believe it! Wallace (who lets face it is a bit of a pest himself), is still hopelessly...

Thecharmedones 14.03.2006 (23.03.2006) · Read review
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Review of Wallace & Gromit - The curse of the were-rabbit (2 disc special)