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youless @youless (114117) • Guangzhou, China 3 Mar 18

Perhaps some of you may not know what it is as it is already an antique. It is floppy disk and long time ago it stored data as well as our USB disk today. But of course at that time the storage was very small. Actually I still had...

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Floppys disk

goingeagle3 @eagletrek2 (5514) • Kingston, New York 29 Oct 16

If the photo come up you see the floppy disk I still have just found them from cleaning my room.for people who do not what floppy disk are it did the job of what flash drive memory stick do today. What do I have on my floppy...

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Does anyone still use their floppy drive..?

vkprincedark @vkprincedark (334) • India 23 Aug 09

I am not at all using floppy drive.Now we have a many high storage devices available.Is their anyone who still uses floppy disks..?

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floppy disk: outdated!

koalapenguin @koalapenguin (2707) • Philippines 10 Aug 09

Our aunt and uncle visited us 2 days ago with our 2 nephews. They went here to chit chat with my parents and grandmother and spend quality time with us. After a few hours, my aunt asked me a favor to open her diskette and...

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Do you still use floppy disk???

Andrepc13 @Andrepc13 (422) • Jamaica 26 Jul 09

one day i was looking for my flash drive to stor some new data but i couldnt find it, but to my surprise i stumble upon a couple floppy dish whoch were atleast 3 years old lol i was sayong do ppl still use these things lol?? Do...

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Do you still remember MS-DOS?

inkyuboz @inkyuboz (1392) • Mandaluyong City, Philippines 30 Jan 09

What can you remember about it? Have you played DOS-based games too? How about DOS-based applications like Wordstar and Lotus 1-2-3? Do you still remember that flat floppy disk that's used for system start-up? We've come a long...

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What is your very first computer?

xNightfallx @xNightfallx (84) • Philippines 10 Jan 09

Mine was a Commodore 64 computer. Its an 8 bit computer with 64kb of ram and you used it with a 5.25 inch floppy disk. This computer does not have its own monitor you have to plug it in on a TV. I got it way back 1984. I used it...

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You want to save data - what's the best to use?

ladynetz @ladynetz (968) • Canada 6 Dec 08

There are so many methods of saving data today: floppy disk, CD, memory stick. I still find that paper is the best. What's your opinion?

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have you experienced blue screen of death in windows?

jamesnogra @jamesnogra (381) • Philippines 24 Aug 08

have you ever experienced blue screen of death in windows? for example, when a floppy disk or cd-rom is working and you remove it, a blue screen appears, that is blue screen of death. in XP and vista, blue screen of death also...

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Rogue, the first or one of the first computer games.

mcspocky @mcspocky (65) • United States 23 Aug 08

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5 1/4 Floppy disk

jinxky @jinxky (2248) • Philippines 22 Jul 08

Do you still remember the 5 1/4 floppy disk? We had the floppy disk way back in high school, this is funny coz it's huge.. After our school year, we opened the floppy disk & then we put our signatures in it.. did u get a chance to...

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What / Who influenced you to LEARN USING the COMPUTER?

mommyscribbles @mommyscribbles (81) • Philippines 8 Jun 08

I had my moments of ponderings and musings awhile ago. I reviewed in my head the things i have done for the day.I realized that my free time was consumed with hanging around our pc. Hmmmn. When did I first learn using this thing...

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Computer Vs. Hindi Films:-

mayankbhushan @mayankbhushan (398) • India 29 May 08

1) Pentium III & Pentium I ---- Bade miyan - Chhote miyan. 2) Computer infected by Virus - Pyar to Hona hitha. 3) Hard disk and Floppy disk - Gharwaali Baharwaali. 4)F1 - Guide. 5) Esc - Nau Do Gyarah. 6) Ctrl+Alt+Del -...

Revive Your Hard Drive

dragxgt @dragxgt (119) • Philippines 29 May 08

This is a situation that every tech support person has faced or will face at least once: a failed hard drive. In this particular case, a user was getting errors like "disk 0 error" and "invalid drive specification." Here were...

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What operating system do you use?

LucyZhang @LucyZhang (313) • China 29 Apr 08

I use Windows XP professional in my office and Window server 2003 at home now. I remembered when I started to learn computer in junior middle school, we use floppy disk to start, then when I came to senior middle school, we began...

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Who has - uses the trusty & old fashioned floppy?

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 30 Jan 08

The floppy disk is going the way of the dinosaur and the dodo bird. It doesn't hold very much in the way of data. It may hold a little over a megabyte of data as apposed to the pen drives' 200 something. The pen drive also comes...

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No harddisk detected

sania19 @sania19 (21) • India 8 Jan 08

My laptop came pre-installed with windows vista. But many of the programs I install wont work in vista. So I tried to install windows xp. When I boot from windows xp setup disk, it detects no harddisk. I gives a message "No mass...

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1GB in 1987 and 1GB in 2007!!

paranoiamk @paranoiamk (9) • Italy 25 Nov 07

To make smaller,transportable,useful with comfort and if is possible,to make smaller energy use. There is a succession of fundamental process that affect technological devices.Example: the memory. I remember my first PC had 80Mb...

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What is USB? What is USB with MP3?

grecychunny26 @grecychunny26 (9482) • Philippines 16 Nov 07

My boss said, he will buy me a USB. We will be using that instead of floppy disk. And another he asked me if i want with MP3. I am sorry i don't know about USB, so i just answered yes. Can you help me with this? Can you explain...

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computer acronyms

eukristian14 @eukristian14 (201) • Romania 13 Sep 07

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit AMD - Advanced Micro Devices APC - American Power Conversion ASCII - American Standard Code...

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