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[guesst]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Reup @ Jun 10 2006, 07:56 AM) [snapback]235564[/snapback]</div>

LOL
Who's laughing when I show them my old 8" double sided floppy...
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Hey, it ain't the inches, it's the capacity. I have a gig on my stick.

[Mighty Midget]

What about dual floppies. I think one is quite normal. But I heard rumours that some have two. Can this be right?

[Icewolf]

Yup, some people install them because they're not satisfied with the performance of their one floppy...

[guesst]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Jun 14 2006, 03:35 PM) [snapback]236782[/snapback]</div>

Yup, some people install them because they're not satisfied with the performance of their one floppy...
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Like His and Her's towels.

Eeeew.

[Mighty Midget]

But can they work simultaneously, or do they have to work one at the time?

[Icewolf]

Only one can work at the time towards a harddisc... The harddisc can't take two inputs, it can handle just one datastream at a time.....

[Japo]

It's pretty much the same as having two CD-ROM drives, conceptually speaking. And you can transfer data between directly them. I remember my old 286 (1 Mb RAM, 40 Mb HDD, gray scale monitor) had two floppy drives, one 3'5'' and one 5'25''. I only used the latter once, with an installation disk which had come included with the machine--and I got the only virus I've ever got, a terrible flesh-eating one which erased the whole hard drive.

[Icewolf]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Japofran @ Jun 15 2006, 03:58 PM) [snapback]236962[/snapback]</div>

It's pretty much the same as having two CD-ROM drives, conceptually speaking. And you can transfer data between directly them. I remember my old 286 (1 Mb RAM, 40 Mb HDD, gray scale monitor) had two floppy drives, one 3'5'' and one 5'25''. I only used the latter once, with an installation disk which had come included with the machine--and I got the only virus I've ever got, a terrible flesh-eating one which erased the whole hard drive.[/b]

Uhh... Too bad, you didn't get it...

[Japo]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Jun 15 2006, 05:11 PM) [snapback]236978[/snapback]</div>

Uhh... Too bad, you didn't get it... [/b]

Well, I was also ansering MM with some *serious* stuff for a change. But no, I didn't. Now I guess the topic title is the key? LOL I hadn't noticed it before, I just answred through "Vew New Posts".

[Mighty Midget]

Don't worry Japofran. I think your first answer (beside being useful ) deserves a hand. So why don't we give that 5 inch a hand, everybody.
(Uh-oh....noooo thank you very much)

And what about an external floppy? Do they work fine with all, or do some prefer the fixed ones?